Plato

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Plato ( PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."Plato was an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. He raised problems for what later became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy. His most famous contribution is the theory of Forms known by pure reason, in which Plato presents a solution to the problem of universals, known as Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic idealism). He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids. His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been, along with Socrates, the pre-Socratics Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself. Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. Although their popularity has fluctuated, Plato's works have consistently been read and studied. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Authors or works influencing Plato
Authors influenced by Plato
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Hans Vaihinger
- Hermann Cohen
- Leo Strauss
- Frithjof Schuon
- Jacques Derrida
- Al-Farabi
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Proclus
- Eliphas Levi
- Alain
- Alain Badiou
- Julius Evola
- Victor Cousin
- Samuel R. Delany
- Ralph Cudworth
- Ploutarchos of Athens
- Rémi Brague
- Aristobulus of Paneas
- Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus
- Bernard Stiegler
- Dmitry Galkovsky
- David Anhaght
- Evald Ilyenkov
- Damaris Cudworth Masham
- Ferdinand Alquié
- Licinianus of Cartagena
- Jean Borella
- Christos Androutsos
- Wolfgang Smith
- Oleg Nogovitsyn
- Benedict Pereira
- Władysław Witwicki
- Indalecio Armesto
- Neel Burton
- Pierre-Jean Labarrière
- Metrofan Aksyonov
- Mirko Hribar
- Aristotle
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Leo Tolstoy
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Voltaire
- René Descartes
- C. S. Lewis
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thomas Aquinas
- Hypatia
- Benedictus de Spinoza
- Thomas Hobbes
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Averroes
- Henri Bergson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Martin Heidegger
- Hannah Arendt
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Works about Plato
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