[lupire]

It's a good point. Do any of his dialogues include the other side of the debate?

Did Plato ever speak about how we wants to communicate ideas to later generations? Maybe he didn't want to, and he trusted his students to preserve and improve his important ideas? How did he expect people far away in time and space to study philosophy without access to great thinkers? Did he not care? Did he expect every niche to reinvent philosophy from scratch?

Thomas Jefferson wanted the US Constitution to be rewritten by 1810, but we are still stuck with it today (with amendments, granted).

[bryanrasmussen]

>It's a good point. Do any of his dialogues include the other side of the debate?

oh sure, they include the other side, but amusingly enough the other side are always idiots.