Ironically, it’s those who are least familiar with what the philosophers have said who are most subject to being controlled by them. They think that just because they have an idea in their heads, that somehow it just popped in there from somewhere, and they don’t realize that what culture looks like in America [today] has been determined by some academic scribbler who wrote his books a hundred years ago. But if you make yourself familiar with the history of philosophy, then you can see how the ideas of men shape society. If you don’t know what the philosophers said then you cannot oppose them and you do not understand what is going on around you.
-John Robbins in his Summary and Conclusion of Biblical Apologetics
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