Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato
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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato" (1929) is a famous dictum by Alfred Whitehead first uttered in Process and Reality on page 39. It is sometimes shortened to "Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato."
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