For Plato, mathematics is the basis of universal rational knowledge, philosophers really have to start with mathematics. Even if he finally surpassed him, he had to study mathematics first, Plato thought that political leaders, for example, would be advised to study higher mathematics for at least ten years because the object of mathematics is outside of us, because mathematics is part of thinking about what is there, from what is.
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