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1 day ago · At 17 or 18, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of 37 (c. 347 BC). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.
6 days ago · The young Socrates (some may say the young Plato) did not give up the Theory of Forms over the Third Man but took another tack, that the particulars do not exist as such. Whatever they are, they "mime" the Forms, appearing to be particulars.
5 days ago · Academy, in ancient Greece, the academy, or college, of philosophy in Athens where Plato used to teach.
1 day ago · Archytas remained in Italy and ancient sources record that he was visited there by young Plato in the early 4th century BC. The Pythagorean schools and societies died out from the 4th century BC. Pythagorean philosophers continued to practice, albeit no organised communities were established.
1 day ago · The Gnostic Demiurge is the antithesis of Plato’s Philosopher King – not just unaware of the Forms and Goodness but actively and ignorantly rejecting them. The Programmer, as a craftsman of the Program, the “manifestation of their philosophical endeavor into material reality” [14], will hypostatize their reason.
4 days ago · Over the course of my now 25 years teaching philosophy, I have led learners through certain Platonic dialogues many times over. Certain of his texts prove particularly suitable for beginner-level students, particularly for introducing key concepts of Platonic philosophy, or the features of the “Socratic method”.
2 days ago · To Plato, Homer was simply the one who "has taught Greece" (τὴν Ἑλλάδα πεπαίδευκεν, tēn Helláda pepaídeuken).
