... to remove yourself from life in this world to be able to philosophise. The reason why I am so condemnatory of modern philosophy is because it has generally accepted this dualism of Plato's uncritically, when his star student Aristotle did not. My grievance is not simply that any philosopher took Plato's position on this dualism, which means basing their theories ... concepts and "free will". The Achille's heel of modern philosophy has been its acceptance of a flawed premise stemming from the first great philosopher. The bane of modern philosophy is that Plato's successor corrected his m...

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