When Plato writes his dialogues or his didactic works, he takes great care to differentiate them from any other literary, rhetorical or sophistic discourse. When Descartes or Spinoza writes, no one can mistake it for 'literature'. When Kant or Hegel writes, we are not dealing with a moral exhortation, a religious sermon, or a novel.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When Plato writes his dialogues or his didactic works, he takes great care to differentiate them from any other literary, rhetorical or sophistic discourse. When Descartes or Spinoza writes, no one can mistake it for 'literature'. When Kant or Hegel writes, we are not dealing with a moral exhortation, a religious sermon, or a novel." in the context of "Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists. Edited with an introduction by Gregory Elliott. (2011); Chap. 6 : The Transformation of Philosophy" to mean that wisdom is timeless.