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Plato

[ pley-toh ]

noun

  1. 427–347 b.c., Greek philosopher.
  2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 kilometers) in diameter.


Plato

1

/ ˈpleɪtəʊ /

noun

  1. a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon, about 100 km in diameter, that has a conspicuous dark floor


Plato

2

/ ˈpleɪtəʊ /

noun

  1. Plato?427 bc?347 bcMGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?427–?347 bc , Greek philosopher: with his teacher Socrates and his pupil Aristotle, he is regarded as the initiator of western philosophy. His influential theory of ideas, which makes a distinction between objects of sense perception and the universal ideas or forms of which they are an expression, is formulated in such dialogues as Phaedo, Symposium, and The Republic. Other works include The Apology and Laws

Plato

  1. An ancient Greek philosopher , often considered the most important figure in Western philosophy . Plato was a student of Socrates and later became the teacher of Aristotle . He founded a school in Athens (see also Athens ) called the Academy . Most of his writings are dialogues. He is best known for his theory that ideal Forms or Ideas, such as Truth or the Good, exist in a realm beyond the material world. In fact, however, his chief subjects are ethics and politics. His best-known dialogues are the , which concerns the just state, and the , which concerns the nature of love.


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Example Sentences

Football “is what Plato calls a pharmakon, a poison and an elixir,” he writes.

Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”

The idea that education should profoundly influence how you live is at least as old as Plato.

Back to the concerto, or a little light Plato, or some such.

However, Plato and Aristotle each called for the exposure of feeble infants.

In Greek especially she was proficient, and Plato was to her more interesting than any story book.

Plato, dissatisfied with the laws of his country, wrote out a code of morals and laws which he thought much better.

The earlier fathers of the church, the greater part of whom were Platonists, imitated this method of Plato's.

The progress of philosophy from Thales to Plato is the most stupendous triumph of the human intellect.

Plato made philosophy to consist in the discussion of general terms, or abstract ideas.

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