“Ha! The first Platonic reference I’ve ever seen on FR. It’s much simpler in the cave.”
With all the Trump love going on here... it makes a little bit of sense why Plato references would be so scant.
Good one. If you have a systematic, conservative philosophy based on first principals, you’ll eventually come across Plato’s allegory of the cave. If you’re just a conservative because it kind of makes sense (shadows on a wall), you’ll happily default to pragmatism when something looks pretty good (not really seeing the thing for what it is). True conservatism abhors pragmatism, compromise, or modifications because true conservatism is merely the recognition of man’s state in nature and standing before God.