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Plato Dan Simak Sean Valentine Elaine Cotter Rachael Jensen Haliegh Danek Who is Plato? Teacher Teacher Socrates Plato Aristotle Plato’s Biography Born around the year 428 B.C. in Athens His father died when he was young Plato’s birth name was Aristocles (not to be confused with Aristotle) and he gained the nickname “Platon” because of his broad build When he was young, his basis of study was music and poetry Plato was in the military service from 409 B.C. to 404 B.C. and then joined a group called the Thirty Tyrants, but ended up leaving it because of the violence Socrates was Plato’s disciple and Plato started to adopt his philosophy style of debate. After Socrates’ death in 399 B.C., Plato left Athens with some friends and traveled for the next 12 years while studying geometry, geology, astronomy, and religion. Plato’s studies were directed toward the question of virtue the formation of noble character Plato Back In ATHENS When Plato returned to Athens in 387 B.C., he started a school of learning called the Academy, which was eventually described as the 1st European University At the Academy, he taught his subjects astronomy, biology, mathematics, political theory, and philosophy. Plato’s Works He had 36 dialogues (books) and 13 letters- “The Republic” Give readers a sense of philosophy as a living and unfinished subject, to which they will need to contribute to finish Modern scholars doubt the authenticity After writing, his works were “lost” until the Renaissance They have been steadily studied since Big influence in math and science Difference between arithmetic and logistic “He believed that ideas were far more real than the natural world. He advised that astronomers not waste their time observing the stars and planets. It was better he believed, just to think about them”- Carl Sagan Allegory of the Cave People lived life chained facing a blank wall of a cave. They could only see the moving shadows projected by the people and fire behind them. The people b