Plato

598.825 - 628.605 R.C. Sproul

How can he be both an idealist and a realist? Well, let's think about that for a second. When we use the term idealist, over against the term realist, what do we usually have in mind? We think of an idealist as somebody who's kind of Pollyannish, who lives in a make-believe world of ideals, who never comes to grip with the grim and harsh realities of the actual world in which we live in.