Plato was key in popularizing the idea of questioning authority. And some have equated his "Apology" in where Socrates question the powers and was forced to commit suicide by hemlock for doing such. Many have equated that story to the story of Jesus(questioning authority). His "Allegory Of The Cave", was also a message to question what you perceive.
But Dawkins in the opening of his book "The Greatest Show On Earth", blames much of humanity's utopia politics and religious ideology on his idea of "essence". The idea that if you simply thought about something you could find it's "true" form. Plato had no way of knowing how important the quality control of testing and falsification we know is key to modern science. Dawkins places blame on Plato for much of how human logic has suffered since.
But Dawkins in the opening of his book "The Greatest Show On Earth", blames much of humanity's utopia politics and religious ideology on his idea of "essence". The idea that if you simply thought about something you could find it's "true" form. Plato had no way of knowing how important the quality control of testing and falsification we know is key to modern science. Dawkins places blame on Plato for much of how human logic has suffered since.