<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580647" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Transcending Platonic Platitudes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coxcomb, charlatan and bore, <br>Plato paved immoral ways for Byron. He<br>transcended platitudes that bore, <br>transforming them with his immortal irony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inspired by Byron’s lines in Don Juan, CXVI, cited by Roger Scruton in Sexual Desire: A Phiosophic Investigation, p.237: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Plato! Plato! You have paved the way, <br>With your confounded fantasies, to more<br>Immoral conduct by the fancied way<br>Your system feigns o’er the controlless core<br>Of human hearts, than all the long array<br>Of poets and romancers: –– You’re a bore, <br>A charlatan, a coxcomb –– and have been, <br>At best, no better than a go-between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8/29/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580647" data-title="Transcending Platonic Platitudes de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Coxcomb, charlatan and bore, Plato paved immoral ways for Byron. He transcended platitudes that bore, transforming them with his immortal irony. Inspired by Byron’s lines in Don Juan, CXVI, cited by Roger Scruton in Sexual Desire: A Phiosophi..."></div> </div> </div>

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