Idol (philosophy)
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Several philosophers have developed concepts that they have called idols, including:
- AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
the idols in the water, reflections or shadows. - PlatoPlatoPlato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
, shades or apparitions or copies - Francis Bacon (philosopher), various obstacles humans face when trying to truly understand nature
- Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
in Twilight of the Idols, abstract unchanging philosophical concepts that need to be swept away to allow for true life to emerge.