## Works [[phaedrus]] [[timaeus]] [[critias]] ## Thought - [[baldick]] asserts that the Greek intellectual focus on polarity/duality [and the Dualism of Iranian Mazdaism] is from [Afroasiatic thinking](afro-asiatic.md) . Plato was unaffected and his thought resembled more the IE [functions](functions.md): Philosopher Kings (Reason), Soldiers (Anger), and Wealth (Desire). He says: "After Plato tripartite structures continue to dominate the Greek philosophical tradition and help to keep it fundamentally at odds with the Afroasiatic legacy in Christianity and Islam. The neo-Platonist triad of the One, Reason and the Soul is central to the teachings of the [Christian](christianity.md) and [Muslim](islam.md) mystics, who are confronted by legalistic opponents inspired by the Semitic inheritance." p.161