Plato

Plato

epigrammatist Classical Athens

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[Wikidata] 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher... | [Wikipedia] Plato 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 philosop

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Plato 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.

Known for:

The Republic|Philebus|Minos|Phaedo|Gorgias|Crito|Apology|Timaeus|Sophist|Symposium|Protagoras|Phaedrus|Rival Lovers|Hippias Minor|Hippias Major|Euthyphro|Statesman|Meno|Laws|Charmides|Theaetetus|Lysis|Parmenides|First Alcibiades|Laches|Critias|Cratylus|Ion|Menexenus|Hipparchus|Clitophon|Second Alcibiades|Theages|Epistles|Eryxias|Epinomis|Sisyphus|Euthydemus

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