Philosophy can come from a cool, sober sense that the ways of the world should be exposed and explained, its myths dismantled and its depths made plane; that not what is best but what is individual, not what is common but what is ordinary, should preoccupy our efforts; that we should not view but master, not play but work, not suppose but certify, not ask but determine, not long but draw limits…. (click the link below to view the full essay by Eva Brann)

Source: ‘Plato’s Theory of Ideas’ – The Imaginative Conservative