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“All European philosophy is just a collection of commentaries on Plato”
(A. Whitehead)
We haven't made a hell of a lot of progress in philosophy since antiquity…
There are no leaps in the history of Western philosophy, and all those who wrote philosophical texts started from tradition, the previous generation, and their contemporaries. Thus, works (and most importantly ideas) Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as those who influenced them in their time, are interwoven in the history of the development of thought and, perhaps, can never be removed from it. And all those who wrote later can be conditionally divided into peripatetics and platonists according to some key assumptions that differ in their texts. Another thing is that modern philosophers can look for “patrons” from the category of the ancients, but here we are more likely talking about the translation of temperament.