This is a really weak article that doesn’t seem to have many arguments, just opinions. Plato’s argument that the soul could survive the death of the body estab

This is a really weak article that doesn’t seem to have many arguments, just opinions. Plato’s argument that the soul could survive the death of the body established a dualistic model of mind and matter that still hampers our thinking today. The Greeks had a concept of an afterlife prior to Plato. Dualism seems more to me that it originated in one of the following: the fear of death and the hope for an afterlife; the fact that things seem to continue existing even when you aren’t observing them; or just because the mind seems (in a common sense way) to exist in a separate place from the body, in the sense that I can sit in a crowd and have thoughts that are not accessible to others. Anyway, I think critiquing Plato on scientific correctness is sort of anachronistic, because you could argue that the scientific culture of the Renaissance needed a couple millennia of “seeking the truth” to develop in the first place – which is ultimately a core idea of Plato, even if he got the specifics wrong. A stronger critique comes from Nietzsche IMO, but it’s a cultural and value critique, not a scientific one. Too long to put here, but essentially he says Plato established a philosophy that debased reality in favor of abstractions. https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/9i9puk/what_exactly_was_nietzsches_problem_with_plato/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/9i9puk/what_...