Foreign thinker
Plato
PlatoPhilosophyGreek427–347 BCE
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and rulers of this world truly and earnestly study philosophy, and political power and philosophy coincide in the same place... there can be no rest from troubles for cities, nor, I think, for the human race.
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Life and Thought
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the principal founders of the Western philosophical tradition. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he founded the Platonic Academy.
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Writings and transcribed lectures25 titles
Apology or Defense
Charmides or Temperance
Euthyphro or Piety
Gorgias or the Art of Rhetoric
Hippias Major or The Way of the Primacy of Hypothesis
Ion or Poetry
Critias or the Properties of Names
Crito or Duty
Laches or Courage
Lysis, or Friendship
Menexenus, or the Second Oration
Meno or Virtue
Phaedo or On the Soul
Protagoras or the Sophists
Symposium or Banquet / Love
Parmenides or the Forms
Phaedrus, or Beauty
The Republic or Politics / Justice
Theaetetus or Knowledge
Critias
Laws
Philebus, or Pleasure
Statesman or Kingship
Sophist or Being
Timaeus or Nature
