... as the origin of confusion regarding Atlantis. In reading numerous texts on Atlantis (there exist currently over 10,000 works), a pattern starts to develop in writing style. These Atlantis writers fall into four main categories: 1) Those who accept Plato's story as perfectly true. 2) Those who believe that Atlantis did exist, but not in the Atlantic Ocean, and suggest various other locations ... Eden, the Golden age, the cradle of mankind." (Ramage 11) And it certainly seems that way if one takes these accounts as historical. If Atlantis had been all of these things, it would have had t...

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... not that Form, and therefore it is not unchanging, ungrowing, etc. The city, therefore, is in a constant state of flux and it's quite inevitable that it should eventually change and fall. This book once again affords us the opportunity to examine Plato's view of property, which is more important to his view of politics than is sometimes recognized. In Plato's political ... one of the most important tenets of the Just City was that the guardians own no property. This admits the assumption that people will, if allowed, do unjust and harmful things to acquire property. Then, in the dissolu...

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