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Floating Pot Space - Plato

Plato (Πλtwν, about 427-347 BC), a famous ancient Greek philosopher, wrote many philosophical dialogues and founded a famous academy in Athens.

Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, and the three are widely regarded as the founders of Western philosophy.

According to Diogenes and Laertius, Plato's original name was Aristokles (rstokles), and later he was called Plato because of his strong body (in Greek, the word pltus is flat, wide, etc.).

But Diogenes also mentioned other theories, and the name Plato may also come from his smooth and broad (pltutes) eloquence, or because he had a broad forehead. [

Because of Plato's excellent learning ability and other talents, the ancient Greeks also praised him as the son of Apollo, and said that when Plato was a baby, bees stayed on his lips, which made his eloquence so sweet and smooth.

In 399 BC, Socrates was tried and sentenced to death. Plato, completely disillusioned with the existing political system, began to travel to Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Cyrene and other places in search of knowledge.

It is said that when he was 40 years old, he returned to Athens after his trip in about 387 BC, and founded his own school in the northwest corner of Athens -

Critics of Plato argued that Socrates had in fact offended powerful people, and speculated that the trial was designed by Socrates' enemies to warn others not to make the same mistake he had made.This is also one of the problems in studying Socrates.There are often great differences in the records of Socrates between the two.

The controversial point of the Dialogues, many other dialogues that are considered to be Plato's own opinion, is expressed in the role of Socrates, but does not carry Socrates' ideals of human and political virtue.

In the dialogues that Plato admired and loved, Socrates is portrayed as a unique personality, surrounded by friends and enemies.

In other dialogues, which Plato did not appreciate, Socrates is merely a speaker with no distinctive character.Some of these conversations contain his own unique wisdom, but others do not.

Many of the metaphysical dialogues, thought to have been written by Plato himself, are not only impersonal to read, but also so abstract that only experts can understand their implications.

Plato's dialogues have been divided by scholars into several periods: Early, Middle, and Late.Gregoryvlstos, a classical historian, believes that "Epicurus", "Apology", "Criton" and "Phaedo" are the earliest series of dialogues, so they more or less present Socrates' real life. Original appearance.

He contends that the early dialogues represent the philosophy of Socrates, while the middle and late dialogues are Plato's own philosophy, but Plato never makes such a note in the dialogues.

Scholars have long wondered why Socrates never left any of his writings.

Scholars have long wondered why Socrates never left any of his writings.

Ancient Greek civilization had a history of sophisticated literacy technology for hundreds of years before entering the golden age of Socrates. Dozens of other poets, philosophers, scientists, and sophists left numerous writings and document fragments, but Socrates Crates left nothing behind, so many suspect that Socrates was semi-literate. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)