Jayson_Virissimo comments on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 06 January 2011 12:30:11AM *  3 points [-]

Plato's ideas were, at least, new.

Much of Plato's thought comes from Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Socrates. If I were to pick an ancient philosopher that didn't have obvious intellectual antecedents, I would choose Thales.