{"product_id":"plato-spiral-notebook","title":"Plato - Spiral Notebook","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of history's sharpest minds filled notebooks obsessively. This one honors the philosopher who asked whether anything we see is even real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis spiral notebook features a bold portrait of Plato, part of the Great Minds of Classical Greece collection. Built for everyday use - lectures, research, creative work, wherever serious thinking happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT PLATO (c. 428–348 BC)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlato watched his teacher Socrates drink hemlock rather than abandon his principles. It changed everything he would ever write.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn into one of Athens' most prominent families, Plato abandoned a political career after the execution of Socrates and spent the rest of his life pursuing a different kind of power - the power of ideas. He founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world, and wrote philosophical dialogues of such elegance and depth that they have never gone out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis theory of Forms proposed that the world we perceive through our senses is merely a shadow of a higher reality - that truth, beauty, and justice exist as perfect ideals beyond human experience. His allegory of the cave remains one of the most powerful images in all of philosophy: prisoners mistaking shadows for reality, unable to conceive of the light behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe also wrote about politics, love, mathematics, cosmology, and the nature of the soul with equal rigor and brilliance. Alfred North Whitehead famously observed that all of Western philosophy is merely a series of footnotes to Plato. The remark is an exaggeration. Not by much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT FEATURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e90gsm paper for a smooth, bleed-resistant writing experience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMetal spiral binding for flat, easy page turning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocument pocket inside cover for notes and loose pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e118 ruled pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompact 6\" x 8\" format\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWipe clean gently with a dry cloth if needed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Printify","offers":[{"title":"One Size","offer_id":48850426495143,"sku":"13893278871806887761","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2249\/5399\/files\/plato-spiral-notebook-greek-philosopher-illustration-blue.jpg?v=1776994475","url":"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/products\/plato-spiral-notebook","provider":"LegendSketch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}