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Plato


Born
Athens, Greece
Genre
Philosophy

Influences
Socrates, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Aristippus ...more


Plato (Greek: 螤位维蟿蝇谓), born Aristocles (c.鈥�427 鈥� 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 founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, H ...more

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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January 2023 Old School Poll

 
  68 votes, 26.8%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1899, 400 pp
 
  55 votes, 21.7%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp
 
  45 votes, 17.7%

 
  33 votes, 13.0%

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy, 1871, 512 pp
 
  26 votes, 10.2%

 
  20 votes, 7.9%

Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley, 1899, 376 pp
 
  7 votes, 2.8%

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