#philosophy #knowledge #mind #rationalism # Plato ## The politic utopia >In the society that he founded, men and women were admitted on equal terms; property was held in common, and there was a common way of life. Even scientific and mathematical discoveries were deemed collective, and in a mystical sense due to Pythagoras even after his death. >~ [[Bertrand Russell]] - Eugenism, only the individuals with the highest fitness are allowed to transmit their genes (other offspring are made to exit the gene pools) - Hierarchical, three classes, Gold, Silver, Iron - men = women ### Bottlenecks - Plato's [[Louis' Utopia]] is subjective, he thinks it is good, but someone who love, say, football, surfing, and nothing else, might not esteem this an [[Louis' Utopia]] ### ![[Plato's allegory]] ## Mathematical worlds Any proved theorem (set of axioms) works in a mathematical world, doesn't necessarily works in our "reality" or only approximately. -> Pythagorean theorem isn't necessarily true in Einstein general relativity world ?