Plato



Plato is considered to be one of the most "dazzling" writers in Western Literature. He was born around 428 BCE and he lived until 347 BCE. Most of his family before him had been in politics and he hoped to persue the same career. He studied with Socrates and after his execution Plato left politics.Throughout his studies he wrote a series of dialouges between himself and other philosopher's describing his philosophical theories.

After travleing around the the world, Plato returned to Athens in 387 BCE and found a school which he called the Academy. Here, he taught Arisotle and he presided over the school until he died. His way of running the Academy in time influenced much of our modern educational theory.

We know about Platos' philosophies because he recorded dialouges between him and Socrates that talked about issues and his theories for deciding if they were ethical or not. The major aspect of Platos' theory is idea. An example is the "idea" of a giraffe. It applies to //all// giraffes. It doesn't change even though all giraffe's are not the same.

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