An Athenian, Plato was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. Of the philosophical works he wrote, 25 dialogues, some letters, and the Apology survive. He was concerned primarily with the nature of knowledge and the study of ethics and politics. In the third century, Plato's ideas were combined with Stoic and Aristotelian philosophy to form the Neoplatonic school of thought that was to have a pervasive influence on later, particularly Renaissance, philosophers.
(428-348 BC): one of the great Ancient Greek philosophers, he was Aristotle's teacher and wrote the first sketch of an ideal utopian state, The Republic.
(c. May 21? 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. In countries speaking Arabic, Turkish or Persian, he is called Eflatun, which means a spring of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge.
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A Greek philosopher whose articulation of a dualistic world-view has influenced western intellectuals of all stripes.
ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
One of the most famous Greek philosophers in ancient history. He investigated the nature of knowledge, ethic and politics. He was the pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. He founded the first institution of education in Athens around 300 BC called the Academy.
Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, Plato was the son of a wealthy Athenian aristocrat, born around 427 B.C.E. He is the author of the Socratic dialogues, and founder of The Academy. He died in either late 348 B.C.E. or early 347 B.C.E. In a surviving letter, he wrote that he never wrote down his own philosophy. This has precipitated a debate among scholars as to how one should regard the dialogues. One explanation is that they are teaching pieces, to be used by Academy students. Another is that they chronicle the life of his teacher Socrates. A third explanation is that one's philosophy is somethng that is lived, not written.
(noun) Greek philosopher; disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle , known for creating the philosophical foundations of Western culture. (Pretty impressive!)
Greek philosopher and writer of immense variety, 429-347 BCE. He founded the Academy on the outskirts of Athens, which lasted for nine hundred years.
As one of the most prominent and influential philosophers in ancient history, Plato's writings have laid the foundation to many social and political subjects. Plato became teacher and founder of the first known institution of education called the ACADEMY in Athens. Of all the dialogues he wrote, the last story of his work called CRITIAS - wherein he describes the seaport and island of Atlantis, is perhaps the most famous.
Greek philosopher; knowledge based on consideration of ideal forms outside the material world; proposed ideal form of government based on abstract principles in which philosophers ruled. (p. 139)
Greek 429-355 B.C., studied in Egypt and elsewhere, pupil of Socrates, fellow student of Euclid, follower of Pythagoras. His contribution to Astrology was setting the problem of representing courses of the planets by circular and uniform motions.
Greek philosopher (c. 427 - c. 348); a student of Socrates
Plato (ancient Greek: , PlátÅn, "wide, broad-shouldered") (c. 428/427 BC–c. 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks –Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle– who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.
Plato (also Plato Comicus) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420-416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405), and Phaon (probably in 391). The titles suggest that his themes were often political.