Early Life
Ideas
Important Facts
Major writings
Allegories and Metaphors
100
Athens, Greece
Where was Plato born?
100
Idea that says that knowledge is innate and that learning is the development of ideas buried in the soul.
What is Platonic epistemology?
100
One of Plato's most famous student who was the teacher of a famous conqueror
Who is Aristotle?
100
Dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC, it talks about justice and the city.
What is Republic?
100
Mythical magical artifact . It granted its owner the power to become invisible at will. Through the story, Plato considers whether an intelligent person would be moral if he did not have to fear being caught and punished.
What is the Ring of Gyges?
200
Plato was born in this age
What is Age of Synthesis?
200
Society should be divided into 3 groups - Philosophers and kings. - Warriors. - Rest of the people.
What is Plato's idea of the "ideal Government"?
200
Plato's Teacher
Who is Socrates?
200
Talks about the nature of Sophists, unity, virtue, and teachability. The characters are Protagoras, a Sophist, and Socrates.
What is Protagoras?
200
A fundamental metaphysical idea explained in the dialogue “Republic” in which he talks about four separate models of the world. The models are described in increasing levels of reality.
What is "the Divided Line"?
300
Plato's mom wanted him to join this thing
What is oligarchy?
300
Non- material abstract forms and not the material world of change known to us through sensation posses the highest and most fundamental kind of reality.
What was Plato's " Theory of Forms" ?
300
Plato focused more on _____ rather than physical science.
What are values?
300
He wrote it while he was young, around 390 BCE. The argument is the definition for beauty and the characters are Socrates and Hippias.
What is Hippias Major?
300
Metaphor for the source of "illumination", arguably intellectual illumination, which he held to be The Form of the Good, which is sometimes interpreted as Plato's notion of God. The metaphor is about the nature of ultimate reality and how knowledge is acquired concerning it.
What is the metaphor of the sun¿
400
The meaning of Plato's name
What is broad?
400
Philosophical term used to refer to de idea of realism regarding the existence of universal or abstract objects.
What is Platonic Realism?
400
The majority of his writings are in the form of _______. He includes several characters who argue about a topic and ask questions to each other. This form allowed Plato to see many points of view, and it interested the readers.
What is a dialogue?
400
Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes".
What is Apology?
400
The story includes an account of the cosmos and the afterlife that greatly influenced religious, philosophical, and scientific thought for many centuries.
What is the Myth of Er?
500
All of Plato's dialogues were written here
What is Socratic Dialogues?
500
(I) Knowledge and perception are the same. (II) true belief is knowledge. (III) true belief accompanied by a rational account is knowledge.
What is Analysis of Knowledge?
500
Founded by Plato in 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for 20 years. It persisted throughout the Hellenistic period. It did not have any particular doctrine to teach.
What is Academus?
500
The most enigmatic of Plato’s dialogues. It is a critical examination of the theory of forms and a set of doctrines defended by Socrates.
What is Parmenides?
500
An allegory in which Plato tried to explain that people may acquire concepts by perceptual experience of physical objects and he tries to explain this by using prisioners who are chained who turn their heads and have perceptions of things that might not be because they have never seen something else.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
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