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The Philosophy Of Plato | Episode 4
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March 2, 2019
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The Philosophy Of Plato
Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, and the founder of the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle. Alfred North Whitehead once noted "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato"
Plato was traumatized by the execution of his mentor and he spends the rest of his life trying to understand how people could be so foolish, and so self-destructive, that they would kill someone as wise as Socrates. Plato begins writing his dialogues, which were essentially little plays, most of which center around Socrates and his method of elenchus. He did not write these dialogues simply for us to read or encounter the viewpoint of Socrates…. Instead, Plato is trying to get us to see something about ourselves.
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