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This suggests that Plato is being read as a forerunner, someone whose thought gives a noble shape to ideas that will later become religious. The phrase can be understood as praise, but also as a historical judgment about philosophy preparing the ground for something more fully formed.
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Originally said in English.
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About Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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