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Founder of the Academy · c. 428–348 BC · Philosophy
Wrote philosophy as drama, put Socrates at the centre of it, and founded the school in Athens that gave us the word academy.
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“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior.”
Plato, Republic I
Born into an aristocratic Athenian family, Plato was in his late twenties when Socrates was executed — an event that shaped everything he wrote afterward. He travelled to Italy and Sicily, tangled disastrously with the tyrants of Syracuse, and around 387 BC founded the Academy, a school that ran in some form for centuries. His dialogues range from short interrogations to the long political architecture of the Republic, with its guardian class, its allegory of the cave, and its argument that the just soul mirrors the just city. Later works like the Parmenides turn his own theory of Forms inside out. Aristotle studied under him for twenty years.
You can put that to the Plato persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Plato’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 428–348 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Plato persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Plato’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 428–348 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Plato persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Plato’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 428–348 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Plato persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Plato’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 428–348 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Plato persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Plato’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of c. 428–348 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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