From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
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   I studied "modern philosophy" at a well respected British university. It   
   started with Descartes.   
   I was struck by how many young men had written books, convinced that   
   they'd somehow found new approaches or solutions to old problems.   
   George Berkeley and David Hume are my British favourites. Not to mention   
   A. J. Ayer with his "Language, Truth, and Logic".   
      
   But someone always came up with "This was handled by Plato in ..." In   
   fact, Alfred North Whitehead went so far as to say that "The history of   
   philosophy is no more than footnotes to Plato".   
   I tend to agree.   
      
   Ed   
      
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