Plato

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ancient Greek philosopher author dialogue writer epistemologist founder of educational institution metaphysician philosopher political philosopher

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.

Aliases (1)

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Statements (90)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek philosopher → author → dialogue writer → epistemologist → founder of educational institution → metaphysician → philosopher → political philosopher →
associatedWith	Academy of Athens →
birthName	Aristocles →
countryOfCitizenship	Classical Athens →
dateOfBirth	circa 424/423 BC → circa 428/427 BC →
dateOfDeath	circa 348/347 BC →
era	Ancient philosophy → Classical Greek period →
ethnicGroup	Greek →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → ethics → metaphysics → philosophy of education → philosophy of language → political philosophy →
founded	Academy of Athens →
gender	male →
genre	Socratic dialogue → philosophical dialogue →
hasPhilosophicalConcept	Demiurge (in Timaeus) → Platonic Form → Platonic solids → anamnesis (recollection) → division of the line → immortality of the soul → noble lie → philosopher-king → the Good (Form of the Good) → world of Forms →
influenced	Alfred North Whitehead → Aristotle → Augustine of Hippo → G. W. F. Hegel → Immanuel Kant → Plotinus → Thomas Aquinas →
influencedBy	Heraclitus → Parmenides → Pythagoras → Socrates →
knownFor	Allegory of the Cave → Platonic love → Platonic realism → doctrine of recollection → ideal state theory → theory of Forms → tripartite theory of the soul →
languageOfWork	Ancient Greek →
movement	Ancient Greek philosophy → Platonism →
name	Plato →
nativeLanguage	Ancient Greek →
notableWork	Apology → Charmides → Cratylus → Crito → Euthydemus → Euthyphro → Gorgias → Hippias Major → Hippias Minor → Ion → Laches → Laws → Meno → Parmenides → Phaedo → Phaedrus → Philebus → Protagoras → Republic → Republic, Book VII (Allegory of the Cave) → Statesman → Symposium → Theaetetus → Timaeus →
placeOfBirth	Aegina → Athens →
placeOfDeath	Athens →
religion	Ancient Greek religion →
studentOf	Socrates →
teacherOf	Aristotle →

Referenced by (128)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Al-Farabi → Al-Kindi → Aristotle → Arthur Schopenhauer → Boethius → Charles Hartshorne → Chrysippus of Soli → Cicero → G. W. F. Hegel → Giambattista Vico → Justin Martyr → Marsilio Ficino → On the Soul and the Resurrection → Panaetius of Rhodes → Percy Bysshe Shelley → Peripatetic school → Philo of Alexandria → Pico della Mirandola → Plotinus → Politics → Posidonius of Apamea → Rhetoric → St. Augustine → The World as Will and Representation → Zeno of Citium → the One →	influencedBy
Apology → Apology of Socrates → Charmides → Cratylus → Euthydemus → Euthydemus → Euthyphro → Gorgias → Hippias Major → Ion (dialogue) → Laches → Laws → Meno → Phaedo → Phaedrus → Philebus → Plato's Symposium → Republic → Republic, Book VII (Allegory of the Cave) → Statesman → Theaetetus → Timaeus → Κρίτων → Συμπόσιον →	author
Anaxagoras → Archytas → Eleatic school → Empedocles → Gorgias → Heraclitus → Hesiod → Ionian school → Parmenides → Phaedo of Elis → Presocratic philosophers → Protagoras → Pythagoras → Socrates →	influenced
Archytas → Aristippus → Aspasia of Miletus → Cebes of Thebes → Crito → Phaedo of Elis → Platonic solids → Simmias of Thebes → Μενέξενoς →	associatedWith
Agathon → Middle dialogues of Plato → Pausanias → Socratic dialogues of Plato →	creator
Euclid of Megara → Isocrates → Xenophon →	contemporaryOf
Aristodemus → Echecrates → Eryximachus →	createdBy
La Mort de Socrate → The Death of Socrates → The School of Athens →	depicts
The Open Society and Its Enemies → Twilight of the Idols →	criticizes
Form of Beauty → Form of the Good →	describedBy
Classical Greek philosophy → Western philosophy →	hasKeyFigure
Classical Greece → Greek Antiquity →	hasNotablePhilosopher
Anytus → Critobulus →	portrayedBy
Cratylus →	attributedTo
Aristocles →	birthNameOf
Form of the Good →	centralInWorkOf
Archytas →	correspondedWith
Sophists →	criticizedBy
Zeno of Elea →	describedBySource
Pausanias →	dialogueBy
A History of Western Philosophy →	discusses
Eleusinian Mysteries →	famousInitiate
Academy of Athens (ancient) →	foundedBy
Aristocles →	givenNameOf
Renaissance Platonism →	hasMainInfluence
Platonism →	hasMainProponent
Classical period →	hasMajorFigure
School of Socrates →	hasMember
Academy of Athens (ancient) →	headOfSchool
Loeb Classical Library →	includesAuthor
Phädon →	inspiredBy
Phlius →	mentionedBy
Meletus →	mentionedInWorkBy
Plato →	name
Platonism →	namedAfter
Aristocles →	notableBearer
Classical Athens →	notablePhilosopher
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ("Platon") →	notableWork
Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers →	philosophersCovered
Neoplatonism →	reinterpretsWorkOf
Phädon →	relatedAuthor
Aristotle →	studentOf
Representative Men →	subject
Attic Greek →	usedBy
Cratylus →	workByAuthor