Plato
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Born | 428/427 or 424/423 BC Athens, Greece |
Dee'd | 348/347 BC (age c. 80) Athens, Greece |
Notable wirk(s) | Apology Phaedo Symposium Republic |
Era | Auncient filosofie |
Region | Wastren filosofie |
Schuil | Platonism |
Main interests | Rhetoric, airt, leeteratur, epistemology, juistice, virtue, politics, eddication, faimily, militarism, freendship, luve |
Notable ideas | Theory o Forms, Platonic idealism, filosofer keeng, Platonic realism, Plato's tripartite theory o saul, hyperuranion, metaxy, khôra, methexis, theia mania, agathos kai sophos, poiesis, philotimon |
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Plato (or Platae) (Inglis pronunciation: /ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad"[1]; 427/428 BC[a] – 347/348 BC), wis a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer o philosophical dialogues, an foonder o the Academy in Athens, the first institution o heicher learnin in the Wastren warld. Alang wi his mentor, Socrates, an his student, Aristotle, Plato helped tae lay the foondations o Wastren philosophy an science.[2] Plato wis oreeginally a student o Socrates, an wis as muckle influenced bi his thinkin as bi his apparently unjuist execution.
Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirtie-sax dialogues an thirteen letters hae been ascribed tae him. Plato's writins hae been published in several fashions; this haes led tae several conventions regardin the namin an referencin o Plato's texts.
Plato's dialogues hae been uised tae teach a range o subjects, includin philosophy, logic, rhetoric an mathematics.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Diogenes Laertius 3.4; p. 21, David Sedley, Plato's Cratylus, Cambridge University Press 2003
- ↑ "Plato". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2002.
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