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Plato - Greek Philosopher

By Melissa Kelly, About.com

Birth of Plato: c. 428 B.C. Athens
Death: 348 or 347 B.C. Athens
Early Influences:
  • Both parents from important Athenian families
  • Stepfather active in the political and cultural life of Periclean Athens
  • Execution of Socrates in 399 B.C. greatly affected his life
Education:
  • Student of Socrates
Major Accomplishments:
  • Founder of the Academy in Athens c. 387 B.C.
  • Wrote 26 dialogues
  • Wrote The Republic, his most important dialogue
Significance:
  • Recorded Socrates ideas for posterity
  • Foundation of most of western thought in the areas of logic, philosophy, psychology, and politics
  • Came up with the idea of 'forms' which was arguably one of the most influential ideas in western philosophy
  • Taught Aristotle
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