Deconversion and some doubts

[vulcanlogician]

I don't really have much familiarity with Plato's work (aside from the minor stuff I was taught in psychology) so it's good to read clear posts about what it is and is not (with no God agenda).

You gotta read the Republic yourself, man. Books I through V, I recommend most. Otherwise, you are going to get an agenda with your Plato if you get him from secondary sources.. That's not the way to read Plato. Plato was a SOCRATIC thinker. His first assumption was that he did not know the answer. While Plutarch and others were quite insightful in their interpretations, I say that the genuine reader of Plato is no Platonist.

Plato is often presented as an advancer of doctrines, but the opposite is true. He was a destroyer of them.