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Plato


Born
Athens, Greece
Genre
Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics

Influences
Socrates, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Aristippus ...more


Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.

Plato is one of the most important Western philosophers, exerting influence on virtually every figure in philosophy after him. His dialogue The Republic is known as the first comprehensive work on political philosophy. Plato also contributed foundationally to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. His student, Aristotle, is also an extremely influential philosopher and the tutor of Alexander the Great of ...more

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دوره آثار افلاطون جلد ١ دوره آثار افلاطون جلد ٢ دوره آثار افلاطون جلد ٣ دوره آثار افلاطون جلد ۴
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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January 2023 Old School Poll

 
  70 votes, 26.9%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1899, 400 pp
 
  55 votes, 21.2%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp
 
  45 votes, 17.3%

 
  34 votes, 13.1%

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy, 1871, 512 pp
 
  27 votes, 10.4%

 
  21 votes, 8.1%

Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley, 1899, 376 pp
 
  8 votes, 3.1%

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