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Jefferson and Plato: updates

January 15, 2009 By Mark Kleiman @markarkleiman

For those interested in the question I asked earlier about why Jefferson seemed uninterested in most of Greek literature, including Plato and Aristotle, I’ve added some updates based on emails from Andy, James, and two helpful readers. It turns out, for example, that Jefferson blamed Plato for the neo-Platonist accretions to Christian theology.

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