Bacon says in a number of places that Western history is like a stream that carries everything light and airy on the surface (like Plato and Aristotle) while submerging all the heavy stuff (Hermes and the Pre-Socratics).
Intriguing that one of the “fathers of modernity” should make this Heideggerian kind of appeal past Socrates.
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