Hi, I'm curious how modern, professional philosophers (those holding a PhD, doing academic research, etc) view someone like Plato. I should add that I'm a mathematician and thus be a little biased, but I find their reasoning and arguments to be terrible in so many cases. Perhaps my definition of philosopher is too specific, but I'd say they're more like an artist than what I think of as a philosopher. For example, I'd say the metaphysics in the Republic may serve as an inspirational model for later philosophers, but his literal account, in my mind!, is almost silly.