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Plato (424/423 BC – 348/347 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Plato is considered to be the founder of Western philosophy.

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Plato and the knowledge of the forms

Some priests and priestesses who have thought a great deal about explaining their concerns, say that our souls are immortal. A soul will come to an end which is called dying, but at another time be b …
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Did Plato ever see a book by Anaxagoras?

Is there evidence that Plato would have seen them?  What are good sources on these questions? … In sum the evidence suggests Plato did see Anaxagoras's book and Simplicius may have.  But the strongest  textual evidence is in Plato, where it is not very explicit.   …
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Did Socrates write verses before his execution?

Is there more direct evidence to show Plato indeed did mean "write"? …
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Plato or Aristotle on trading lives

I am sure I remember either Plato or Aristotle saying that most people, if a god approached them with an offer to trade their life for someone else's, would run away. … Can anyone here identify such a passage in Plato, or in Aristotle? …
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A Kantian Platonist view of mathematics

No it is not stupid. So far it goes, it is right about Kant. As to Platonism in philosophy of mathematics, people give widely different definitions, often explicit that they do not mean to describe …
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