The Platonic Tradition faith a succession of Muslim polities

a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France

occasionally disturbing

the nature of democratic deliberation

Translation: Mokrane Guezzou

weigh science and religion

The Platonic Tradition faith a succession of Muslim politiesThe Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much the central one that the very existence and survival of Western civilization depends on it. It is like the Confucian tradition in Chinese culture, or the monotheistic tradition in religion, or the human rights tradition in politics. In the first of his eight lectures, Peter Kreeft defines Platonism and its Big Idea, the idea of a transcendent