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biography on plato. Plato Plato was born in Athens, in May or December into a
moderately well to do family. ... Plato's own real name was Aristocles. ...
plato. ... Moreover, Plato suggests a rigid hierarchy between the three classes:
Philosopher-king is the highest class, which is to rule. ...
Plato. According to Plato; justice is the excellence of our souls. ... Plato was
highly dissatisfied with the prevailing conditions in Athens. ...
Plato. Plato. By Michael McDaniel Plato was the best known of all the great Greek
philosophers. ... Born in Athens circa BC 427, Plato sought out political status. ...
Plato Vs Shelley. ... Plato believed that there is only one who "makes the essence of
the bed," (44) the single idea and therefore that is the truth. ...
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Plato
1."Plato's beloved teacher was tried on trumped-up charges of impiety and corrupting youth, and sentenced to death. In Plato's eyes, democracy was now tarred wit hthe same brush as tyranny." [19]
2."Possibly during his stay in Megara, or during a stop on his travels, Plato wrote his earliest extant works. These are in the form of dialogues and are heavily influenced by Socrates, both personally and intellectually." [20]
3."No less than three of Platos's early dialogues -The Apology, Crito, and Euthyphron- as well as the later Phaedo, are devoted to the trial, prison days, amd ultimate death of Socrates. These events had a profound effect on Plato, and his description of them ranks alongside Hamlet and Dante's Inferno in Western literature. The Apology describes Socrates' trial and the seventy-year-old philosopher's defense of himself before the people of Athens." [20-21]
4."The central feature of Plato's philosophy is his Theory of Ideas (or4 Forms), which he continued to develop all his life. This means that Plato's theiry has come down to us in several differing versions, thus providing philosophers with sufficient
material to argue over for centuries to come." [23]
5."The best explanation of Plato's Theory of Ideas is his own (which is not always the case, in philosophy as elsewhere)." [23]
6."Briefly Plato explains that most human beings live as if in a dim cave. We are chained, he says, and facing a blank wall, with a fire at our backs. All we see are flickering shadows playing across they cave wall, and this we take to be reality. Only if we learn to turn away from the wall and the shadows, and escape from the cave, can we hope to see the true light of reality." [24]
7."When we learn to ignore the world of ever-changing particulars and concentrate on the timeless reality of ideas, our understanding can begin to rise through the hierarchy of ideas to an ultimate mystical apprehension...
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