Plato
Sign in to savePlato ( ; Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
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Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher from Athens who is widely regarded as one of the most foundational thinkers in Western philosophy, known for developing the dialogue and dialectic as philosophical forms. He founded the Academy, an influential philosophical school in Athens, where he taught ideas that became the basis for Platonism and shaped major areas of both theoretical and practical philosophy.
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- 428/427 BC
- Died
- 348/347 BC
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Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the…
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31 sectionsContents
- Life
- Socrates
- Thirty tyrants and Trial of Socrates
- Later philosophical development
- Heraclitus and Parmenides
- Mathematics
- Pythagoreanism
- Later years: Syracuse and the Academy
- First trip to Syracuse
- Foundation of the Academy
- Second and third trips to Syracuse
- Final years and death
- Philosophy
- The Forms
- The Soul
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Politics
- Rhetoric and poetry
- Unwritten doctrines
- Works
- Themes
- Textual sources and history
- Authenticity
- Chronology
- Legacy
- Medieval era
- Modern
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Plato ( ; Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is his Theory of Forms (or Ideas), which aims to solve what is now known as the problem of universals. He was influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself.
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