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Plato - Themes. Unlike Socrates, Plato wrote down his philosophical views, leaving behind a considerable number of manuscripts. In Plato's writings are debates concerning the best possible form of government, featuring adherents of aristocracy, democracy, monarchy as well as other issues. A central theme is the conflict between nature and convention, concerning the role of heredity and the environment on human intelligence and personality long before the modern "nature versus nurture" debate began in the t ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Aristotle

Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential ancient Greek philosophers in Western thought. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato an ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Apophthegmatum opus

Apophthegmatum opus is one of the works of the Dutch humanist Erasmus. It is a collection of apophthegms from Classical Antiquity. Erasmus created the opus during the Renaissance. Many classical apophthegms repeated ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Alexander the Great. According to Speroni (p. 1), Apophthegmatum opus is one of "the most monumental collections of classical apophthegms[...]ever assembled". ...

Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Alexander Nehamas

Alexander Nehamas is a professor of philosophy at Princeton University. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, and literary theory. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, and completed his doctorate on Plato under Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at various universities in the United States, including the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania, before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990. He is currently the Edmund N. ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Critias

Critias, 460-403 BC, was the uncle of Plato, leading member of the Thirty Tyrants, and one of the most violent. He was an associate of Socrates', a fact that did not endear Socrates to the Athenian public. He was noted in his day for his tragedies, elegies and prose works. From his Sisyphus a fragment has been preserved in which he declares faith in the gods to be merely a clever device for holding the masses in check; but as no one would dare to make such a statement before an Athenian audience, the pi ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Adolf Reinach

Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach (December 23, 1883, Mainz, Germany - November 16, 1917, Diksmuide, Belgium), German philosopher, phenomenologist (from the Munich phenomenology current) and law theorist. Adolf Reinach - Life and Works. Adolf Reinach studied at the Ostergymnasium in Mainz (where he became at first interested in Plato) and later entered the University of Munich in 1901 where he studied mainly psychology and philosophy under Theodor Lipps. In the circle of Lipps' students he came in conta ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - 529

529 - Events. April 7 - first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I Academy at Athens, founded by Plato in 347 BC, is closed by Justinian I, Byzantine emperor. Saint Benedict of Nursia founds the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy. The Samaritans revolt and are defeated; the Church of the Nativity is burnt down during the revolt. Category: 529< ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Crantor

Crantor was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, born probably about the middle of the 4th century BC, at Soli in Cilicia. He was a fellow-pupil of Polemo in the school of Xenocrates at Athens, and was the first commentator on Plato. He is said to have written some poems which he sealed up and deposited in the temple of Athens at Soli (Diog. Laërtius iv. 5. 25). Of his celebrated work On Grief, a letter of condolence to his friend Hippocles on the death of his children, numerous extracts have been preserved in ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Antimachus

Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18). His chief works were: a long-winded epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endea ...

Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher and author. Adler was born in New York City. After dropping out of high school at age 14, he worked as a copy boy for the New York Sun. Wanting to become a journalist, he took writing classes at night where he discovered the works of men he would come to call heroes: Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, John Stuart Mill and others. He went on to study philosophy at Columbia University. Though he failed to complete the necessary phys ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - Virtue epistemology

Virtue epistemology refers to any number of modern epistemological approaches which approach contemporary problems by means of the intellectual virtues, either conceived of as faculties or exemplary traits. For example, commonly accepted epistemic virtues include creativity, intellectual humility, and objectivity. Intellectual virtue has been a subject of philosophy since the works of Plato and Aristotle, but lately philosophers in the analytic tradition have sought to solve problems of especial concern to modern epistemology, such as justification and reliabilism, by throwing attention on ...

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Plato - Work: Encyclopedia - De Legibus

In the first century B.C. the conservative senator Cicero wrote a work bearing the same name as Plato’s famous dialogue, The Laws. In his dialogue, Cicero says the following about the tribunate (later explained). Cicero is speaking in response to his brother Quintus. Quintus, you see the definiciencies of the tribunate very clearly, but it is unfair when criticizing an institution to omit its advantages and pick only on its weaknesses. By this method the consulshop could be condemned if we were to just emphasize the bad deeds of some peopl ...

Plato - Work: Encyclopedia II - Allan Bloom - Philosophy

Allan Bloom’s writings can be divided into two basic categories: scholarly (e.g. Plato's Republic) and popular political comment (e.g. Closing of the American Mind). On the surface, this is a valid distinction, yet closer examinations of Bloom’s works reveal a direct connection between the two types, which reflect his view of philosophy and the role of the philosopher in political life. All ...

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