Post by gggg gggghttps://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22The+question+what+Plato+believed+is+inevitably+and+highly+controversial.%22
I think that anyone of good sense who reads Plato can't help but
conclude that he had a vast intellect. And that the common prejudiced
view of a right-wing authoritarian is wildly wrong.
"Platonism" was only one of an immense number of possibilities that he
surveyed. The history of philosophy is just footnotes to Plato (Alfred
North Whitehead, I believe).
Along the same lines, look at a modern philosopher and the rash
prejudice against him.
Kant. He limited knowledge in order to allow room for God.
Ed