If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
A heroic nature is very Greek.
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
Plato was a bore.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.