Date: 2021-11-12 04:55 pm (UTC)
sdi: Oil painting of the Heliconian Muse whispering inspiration to Hesiod. (Default)
From: [personal profile] sdi
Alfred North Whitehead, at least, said that "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." So maybe that's as close to a "First Cause of texts" as we get!

(But goodness, I can't conceive of having either the time or the mental energy to go all the way through Plato! I guess it's a project for the decades.)
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