Oh Boy

I believe the keyword search "Plato's thoughts about the enlightenment" that led somebody to Fear and Loathing in Georgetown should make E.D. Kain far less sanguine about the state of American education.

To any and all subsequent internet searchers who arrive at this page based upon the above search terms:

Plato died in 348–347 BC. The Age of Enlightenment occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries AD, which is to say approximately two thousand years later. One can conjecture about what Plato's thoughts would have been or even analyze the influence of Plato's thoughts on the Age of Enlightenment. (Rousseau would be the place I'd start on the latter project.) Nevertheless, Plato had no thoughts about something that occurred over two millenia after his death.

Sincerely,
FLG