Plato biography
Plato - Introduction
Plato is well known for many different extreme ideas and theories which will be discussed in separate lenses and linked too as they are quite complicated at times and many of them deserve there own lens just for the pure amount of information about them. So this lens is a biography off him, and then links to his theories will be added as I go along. I'm a university student who has just recently finished studying Plato's seventh Socratic dialogue dialogue, Phaedo, which is why I decided to do...

Platos View On Knowledge
Platos View Of Knowledge And The Soul
Phaedo is Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail Socrates' final days, and this particular dialogue focuses on his death. It is set in Socrates prison cell and much of the early dialogue focuses on his explanations for why the Philosophers true task is that of practising for dying where the body would finally be freed from the body and able to gain knowledge, something it is unable to do in the physical world whilst attached to the body, which describes as a hindrance and goes on to say ...

Plato
Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher. Plato was for many years the student of Socrates and in 388 BC he founded the Lyceum, a school for philosophy. He propounded that that there was an independent reality of universal ideas that man could only come to know through reasoning. In his book the Republic Plato argued that the ideal state should be based on rational order and ruled by philosopher kings. His other books, which were all written in the form of dialogs...

The Greek Philosopher Plato
Plato
One of the great Greek philosophers, Plato (427 - 347 BC) produced ideas which laid groundwork for much of subsequent Western philosophy. Plato was born into an important Athenian family. He was well educated and at the age of 20 became a pupil of Socrates. The teachings of Socrates had an enormous influence on Plato's thinking and on what he wrote. When Socrates was put to death in 399 BC, Plato went to live for a time in Megara, west of Athens. He also traveled for the next 12 years throu...