#202: Plato: “Badly Misinterpreted”

“I have only tried to show that Plato has been badly misinterpreted over the years, and particularly if, in the Republic, he is taken to be “outlining a utopian society.” Plato, rather, was doing exactly the reverse: He was offering an antidote to, and showing the complete idiocy of, the construction of all possible utopias, particularly any utopia that is based upon health, wealth, honor, reputation, or political power.”

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Uemura, Joseph Norio. Uemura’s Reflections on the Mind of Plato (p. 100). Saga Egmont International. Kindle Edition. (Bold Emphasis added.)

Joseph Norio Uemura - “Age 89, of Burnsville, passed away March 3, 2016. ... Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Hamline University and retired United Methodist minister.” | from https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/126210/
Also see: https://www.apaonline.org/page/memorial_minutes2016#uemura
“His remarkable life had two major aspects. The first is recorded in words and visual images in his autobiography published under the title The Insatiable Search for Truth [IST] (edited by Steve LeBeau, Autobiography, Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2015). His account of the experience of the Japanese-Americans who suffered so much and so unjustly in the twentieth century ...
The second aspect spawned his career as a professor of philosophy and a mentor to dozens of us who were fortunate to be his students.”