Seems that way to me, too, dearest sister in Christ!
Michael Novak recently wrote, "What Jewish and Christian revelation adds to philosophy, which philosophy has sometimes gained a hint of but hardly dares to assert on its own, is that God reveals himself as the love that impels us to show love to one another." Plato got as far as he could possibly get, absent the revelation of Christ. It seems to me he got pretty far. I believe if he had lived in the time of Christ, he would have confessed Christ, just as the philosopher (and saint) Justin Martyr later did. FWIW
Thank you so very much for your insightful essay/post!
I agree that Plato went as far as he possibly could. And I agree with Novak that (even today) philosophy hardly dares to assert on its own the revelation of Jesus Christ.