Plato §
- Lived 427-347 BCE
- Student of Socrates
- Founded The Academy in 387 BCE
- His writings are our only source of Socrates’ ideas.
- One of the most famous philosophers of all time
Key Works §
- The Dialogues - in which he records Socrates’ ideas and arguments by writing him into fictional conversations as a character.
- The Republic - one of the dialogues, which has become one of the most influential political philosophy writings of all time
- The Allegory of the Cave and the idea of World Reform.
The Two Worlds §
- Plato believed that the world was in two forms, the sensible world and the intelligible world.
- A world in which you can feel, and see things
- And a world in which things which we apply value to have come from
- We will return to this concept later