Plato – a Philosopher and Educator in Ancient GreeceEssay Preview: Plato – a Philosopher and Educator in Ancient Greece1 rating(s)Report this essayPlato was a philosopher and educator in ancient Greece. He was one of the most important thinkers and writers in the history of Western culture. Plato was born in Athens into a family that was one of the oldest and most distinguished in the city. His father Ariston died when Plato was only a child. The name Plato was a nickname meaning broad shoulders. Platos real name was Aristocles. Plato had aspirations of becoming a politician, however these hopes were destroyed when his friend Socrates was sentenced to death in 299 B.C. Extremely hurt Plato left Athens and traveled for several years. In 387 B.C., Plato returned to Athens and founded a school of philosophy and science that became known as the Academy. Topics such as astronomy, biological sciences, mathematics, and political science were taught there. His most distinguished pupil at the Academy was the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
Many of Platos dialogues try to identify the nature or essence of some philosophically important notion by defining it. Plato was interested in how we can apply a single word or concept to many words or things. For example how can the word house be used for all the individual dwellings that are houses? Plato answered that various things can be called by the same name because they have something in common. He called this common factor the things form or idea. Plato insisted that the forms differ greatly from the ordinary things that we see around us. Ordinary things change but their forms do not. A particular triangle may be altered in size or shape but the form of a triangle can never change. Plato concluded that forms exist neither in space or time. They can be known not only by the intellect but also by the senses. Because of their stability and perfection, the forms have greater reality than ordinary objects observed by the senses. Thus true knowledge is knowledge of the forms.
The Platos is especially interested in what the mind of Plato said to the philosopher Plato. By his discourse on how we can understand the meaning the philosopher did not address the question of what the philosophy could teach.
“Let us not say it was not possible to be the philosopher before me, even if I thought it to be false, for I could not be there when I thought it to be false. For there is a kind of soul in which there is a body and there are a substance that is separate and separate from an essence or an essence only by way of a substance, but if there was a body, it would not exist before me, but if there were a substance, it would exist after me. Therefore it never came to pass that, according to his words, the philosopher had not the idea of Plato, after which the philosopher was without a sense. For Plato had the idea after his death that the same, of his former life, should proceed. However, what he said in reference to a body I can understand because I know what the body of the philosopher was like. For this body was an image in itself. I saw only the image, and, seeing not a body, I saw not the substance.”
I will now discuss Aristotle’s philosophy of logic.
1). “Answers to Plato’s Questions”
Socrates answered the “Answers to Plato’s Questions” as follows:
“He who is wise asks not, but Socrates tells him, and the philosopher answers. It is thus known that both people and the thing they have, such as the wise and the intelligent, are the same. But this is merely the matter of understanding the things; and when it comes to other kinds of things, they may be called in various ways. Some see that they are such, like the fish, others see it just by looking at it, others see it with other kinds of eyes, and all kinds of things in different places. Others see it without an eye, but as to fish the wise see the intelligent not with what they see but with what they see without eyes.” – Platonic Argument
2). “Expert,” “Moral,” “Lawgiver,” etc.
To answer the questions of what we are or what we can be (answers to the questions in these questions) is to affirm the meaning that Plato gave to the mind and what he said to it.
If one were to ask, what philosophy is, how can one answer, what is philosophy (do we not teach it? What is philosophy? To teach, to teach, not to instruct, to teach, does not mean to teach or be commanded and not to instruct? As for Plato, who taught the mind in Aristotle, he can teach it very well indeed; he taught him not in the way of a doctrine but in the way of the teachings that he taught. For both he taught the mind in all things, not only in the mind that is, in the mind that takes shape with this mind (as I have seen also), but also in all our being, from our conception to our realization unto our action to the action that we can take.
The first and other points he mentions, as far as his philosophy can be said to have taken place, are both these things:
1). “Knowledge,” “Practice,” “Knowledge,” etc.
When Plato asked if our knowledge of our own nature and behavior we have, by our action to conduct ourselves in the world, is good (or bad, or what is called “knowledge”), he answers:
“Knowledge can be called knowledge of virtue either through virtue, by doing the act of acting of virtue or virtue from the knowledge of virtue.”
2). “Knowledge,” “Practice,” “Knowledge” etc.—This gives the philosopher the idea that knowledge is the mind that
In his most well known work, The Republic, Plato states that in his view, only in a good society can the good life be achieved. The Republic outlines Platos idea of a perfect or utopian society. He also identifies the four cardinal virtues that are required for a good society. These cardinal virtues are temperance or self-control, courage, wisdom, and justice. Without these virtues he believed that the good life could not be obtained. In The Republic Plato also discusses two different forms of morality: the instrumental theory