Thursday, September 20, 2012

Post # 5-Plato

Explain in 5-sentences (Max) who Plato was and what ideas he was best known for postulating.

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  1. Plato was one of the most prominent, respected and influential classical Greek philosophers of all time. He was as well a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues and founder of the Academy in Athens. Plato was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He was best known for proposing the ideas of idealism. He is known as the "Father of Idealism in philosophy."

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  2. Aristocles, better known as Plato (427-347 B.C.), was a Greek philosopher born in Athens and is one of the most famous, respected, and influential philosophers of all time being that he is a part of the Big Three ( alongside Socrates and Aristotle) and considered one of the founders of Western Philosophy. He saw tripartite structures in the world around him and his social structure theory had a governing class, warriors, and workers. He also thought the human soul contained reason, spirit, and appetite and he founded an institution of learning known as the Academy. Plato is known as the father of idealism in philosophy as his ideas were elitist, with the philosopher king being the ideal ruler. Much of what we know about Socrates comes from Plato.

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  3. Plato was a well-known Greek philosopher born in Athens (427-345 B.C.) who was considered one of the founders of Western Philosophy. It was through Plato that we gained familiarity with Socrates philosophy as he wrote dialogue as his student. Plato's "Apology" was his version of the death of Socrates. Plato is known as the father of idealism. One of his goals was to help people understand the real world better, by finding ways to predict or understand the real world even without being able to see it.

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  4. Plato was a Greek philosopher and mathematician who, along with Socrates, paved the way for Western Philosophy. During his time of 427-347 B.C., Plato was known for his dialogues, which are developed literary works that deal with philosophical morals and ideas. One example of his work is " The Republic", which includes his famous allegory of the cave. He also created the Academy, an educational institution. Plato tried to deal with the metaphysics and improve our understanding of "reality".

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  5. Plato was one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.The son of wealthy and influential Athenian parents, Plato began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates. Plato had postulated that we know "forms" through a remembrance of the soul's past lives and Aristotle's arguments against this treatment of epistemology are compelling. For Plato, particulars somehow do not exist, and, on the face of it, "that which is non-existent cannot be known".

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  6. Plato along with Aristotle and Socrates is credited with being one of the forebearers in the conception of western philosophical ideologies. Plato was a disciple of Socrates, and was attributed with recording all of Socrates' teachings as he could not read nor write. His earlier works are mainly reflections of the views of Socrates while his later works are more representative of his own views such as with "The Republic." Plato went on to became the mentor to Aristotle who then went to become the personal teacher of Alexander the Great.

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  7. Plato is a very well known Western philosopher, author, and mathematician. He was born around 429 BC in Athens, Greece and died around 347 BC. He was a pupil of Socrates, another great Greek philosopher, and also taught Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great. He was best known for postulating ideas around idealism. He believed that the world around us was imperfect and humans could tap into a more better, error-less world.

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  8. Plato (427-347 B.C.) was a Greek Philosopher of Athens and a pupil of Socrates. He founded the most influential school of the ancient world called the Academy in which his famous pupil Aristotle learned from. Plato wrote in epistles and dialogues, which included the works of the Republic, Phaedo, Symposium, and Timaeus, where he discussed the rational relationship between the soul, the state and the cosmos. He believed that virtue consists in the harmony of the human soul with the universe of ideas, which assure order, and intelligence. He was the only philosopher that understood the harmony of every part in the universe, with the idea of good, is capable of ruling the just state.

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  9. Plato; born four hundred twenty seven B.C, passed three hundred forty seven B.C, was a Greek Philosopher from Athens. He was the student of Socrates and also the teacher of Aristotle. He had conjured up many theories, ideas, beliefs, etc. He had written books, two being "Atlantis," and "The Republic." He is also known as the father of idealism, and had created the first Academy in Athens.

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  10. Plato was a well known philosopher 427-347 B.C.Plato was a student of Socrates, and was thougth all of Socrates' teachings. plato was a well mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues and founder of the Academy in Athens. Plato is known as the father of idealism. One of his goals was to help people understand the real world better, ina different perspective

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  11. Plato was a Greek philosopher and considered to be one of the greatest minds to have ever existed. He is one of the known three Fathers of Western Philosophy. The basis of his entire philosophy was that he would always keep striving to find the truth because he believed that everything has a true form. An example would be a tissue box is a tissue box because it has tissues and its also a box but how is it a tissue box if it can be used for many other things? A lot of what he had learned derived off of Socrates' teachings.

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  12. Plato was a well known Greek philosopher who studied under Socrates. Plato was born 427-347 BC in Athens, Greek. He is known as one of the three "Fathers of Western Philosophy." The idea he was best known for was that he would always strive to find the truth because he believed that everything has a true form. His philosophies were influenced by his teacher Socrates and then expanded.

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  13. Plato was a well known Greek philosopher. He was born in 427 B.C and died 347 B.C. He is one of the "Fathers of Western Philosophy". His idea that he was best well known for is is that he would alway try to find the truth because he believed everything had a true form. He was very much influenced by Socrates, his teacher.

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  14. PLato was Socrates disciple and one of the most recognized Greek philosopher. He was also one of the "Fathers of Western Philosophy". Plato is famous for his search for the truth, He believed everything has a true form to it.

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  15. Plato lived between 5th and 4th century BC. He was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers of his time. Often, people refer to him as the "Father of Western Philosophy" because of his revolutionary ways of thinking, such as idealism.

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