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CrazyEyeJoe · 3695 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ancient Bickering: What the Founding Fathers Knew about the Classics
Do you have any evidence to support this? First of all, I don't think it's accurate to classify Palin or Obama as intellectuals. They are politicians, who speak to the masses, they're not reading from scholarly articles. Without having any significant knowledge on the subject myself, I still think it's unlikely that scholars just take Plato as fact these days.These days, modern thinkers tend to put the Ancients on an untouchable pedestal, hailing them from afar without really engaging. Politicians from Obama to Palin use quotes from Plato and Aristotle as indisputable maxims, truths they can cite to support their agenda.