0210l-PLATO born maybe Aristocles 423 to 427-347 BC in Athens or Aegina, Greece, writer
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His father was Ariston, and mother was Perictione, he was a classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy, believed philosophy was the science of the idea, writer of philosophical dialogues, mathematician, metaphilosopher, founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world with western philosophy, was as much influenced by Socrate's thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death, there is little question that Plato lectured at the Academy that he founded, the dialogues have since his time been used to teach a range of subjects, mostly including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote, the relationship between Plato and Socrates is not unproblematic, Aristotle, for example, attributes a different doctrine with respect to the ideas to Plato and Socrates (Metaphysics 987b1–11), but Plato never speaks in his own voice in his dialogues, in the Second Letter, it says, "no writing of Plato exists or ever will exist, but those now said to be his are those of a Socrates become beautiful and new", much on Plato's mind, a recurrent theme, is the father-son relationship, the "question" of whether a father's interest in his sons has much to do with how well his sons turn out, a boy in ancient Athens was socially located by his family identity, several dialogues address questions about art, Socrates says that poetry is inspired by the muses, and is not rational, Plato speaks approvingly of this, and other forms of divine madness (drunkenness, eroticism, and dreaming) in the Phaedrus (265a–c), and yet in the Republic wants to outlaw Homer's great poetry, and laughter as well, in several dialogues, Plato's Socrates floats the idea that Knowledge is a matter of recollection, and not of learning, observation, or study, on politics and art, religion and science, justice and medicine, virtue and vice, crime and punishment, pleasure and pain, rhetoric and rhapsody, human nature and sexuality, love and wisdom, Socrates and his company had something to say, "Platonism" is a term coined by scholars to refer to the intellectual consequences of denying, as Socrates often did, the reality of the material world, in several dialogues, most notably the Republic, Socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real, while most people take the objects of their senses to be real if anything is, Socrates is contemptuous of people who think that something has to be graspable in the hands to be real, all is due to Plato's writings as no Socrate's writing exists, Socrates believes physical objects and physical events are "shadows" of their ideal or perfect forms,
writings;
Tetralogies-'Euthyphro-Crito-Phaedo',
'Cratylus-Theaetetus-Sophist-Statesman',
'Parmenides-Philebus-Symposium-Phaedrus',
'1st&2nd Alcibiades-Hipparchus',
'Charmides-Laches-Lysis',
'Euthydemus-Protagoras-Gorgias-Meno',
'Hippias-Ion-Menexenus',
'Republic-Timaeus-Critias',
'Laws-Epinomis-Seventh Letter',
other possible works; Axiochus, Definitions, Demodocus, Epigrams, Eryxias, Halcyon, On Justice, On Virtue, Sisyphus,