Plato sacrificed intellectual honesty to promote socially edifying philosophical conclusions

Evidence

Plato is always concerned to advocate views that will make people what he thinks virtuous; he is hardly ever intellectually honest, because he allows himself to judge doctrines by their social consequences. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 403

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 403
• XREF: connects to: Plato argues that real knowledge derives from concepts rather than sensory perception — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 674; Plato erroneously assimilated all forms of knowledge into mathematics — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 718; Objectivist truth served as philosophy’s safeguard against the intoxication of power — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2943 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #contradicts (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210
• Plato argues that real knowledge derives from concepts rather than sensory perception #responds-to (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 674
• Plato erroneously assimilated all forms of knowledge into mathematics #responds-to (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 718