The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy that became the cornerstone of western thought. Some of his contemporaries were privy to his secret knowledge but over the centuries it was lost. Rediscovered recently by Dr. Jay Kennedy, Plato's faith in science sheds new light on the origins of modernity.
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References:
Kenney, George. 2010. "Plato's Secret". Electric Politics. Posted: August 6, 2010. Available online: http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2010/08/platos_secret.html
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