Plato (or Platae) (Inglis pronunciation: /ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, broad; 427/428 BC – 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. Plato wis oreeginally a student o Socrates, an wis as muckle influenced bi his thinkin as bi his apparently unjuist execution.
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Roman copy o a portrait bust bi Silanion for the Academia in Athens (c. 370 BC) | |
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 philosophy |
Region | Wastren philosophy |
Schuil | Platonism |
Main interests | Rhetoric, airt, leeteratur, epistemology, juistice, virtue, politics, eddication, faimily, militarism, freendship, luve |
Notable ideas | Theory o Forms, Platonic idealism, philosopher king, Platonic realism, Plato's tripartite theory o saul, hyperuranion, metaxy, khôra, methexis, theia mania, agathos kai sophos, poiesis, philotimon |
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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.
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