PLATO

Platón
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Despite having lived in the 5th C. BC, Plato is still a pivotal character in western civilization.
His elegance and conciseness as a writer are evident in his dialogues that involved his teacher Socrates and others. The Apology about Socrates trial) and the Republic (about justice) are his most famous pieces. Plato's dialogues are about ethics, law, rhetoric math, logic, natural science and more. He touched on all the problems that philosophers have contemplated since then. Interestingly he hardly wrote anything about himself, thus very little is known about his life. He travelled around the Mediterranean learning and teaching. While in Syracuse, the cruel and suspicious emperor sold Plato into slavery He was later released when an admirer bought his freedom. At about 40 years old, Plato retuned to Athens and set up the Academy, which is considered the first university in the west He Ied and taught there for4óyears though none of his lectures were published. The Academy was closed 900 years later by a Byzantine emperor who thought it was a threat to the spread of Christianity As Socrates was Plato's mentor, Plato was Aristotle’s. The three laid the foundation of philosophy as we understand it today They disdained opinion based on perception of the material world; they preferred immutable Forms that constitute real
and provide truth, order and wisdom. For Plato, these were the only way to virtue and ethics in a constantly changing world.