plato
c. 425 - 347 BCE
Plato was a Greek philosopher born circa 425
BCE. He was a student of Socrates who took notes
on his lectures and kept records of what
Socrates said, as he didn't himself. He proposed
many popular philisophical theories, like the
theory of forms, that everything is just a
modified copy of the ideal form of itself. He
wrote the allegory of the cave, a story arguing
in defense of the theory of forms, portraying
the theory as people looking at shadows on the
wall of the cave, never having seen the true
forms of anything. Plato went on to establish a
school of his own and one of his students,
Aristotle, also eventually became a major
philosopher in ancient Greece, although he
fundamentally disagreed with Plato.
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