Similar words: platoon, platonic, platonism, neoplatonism, palatoplasty, plat, flat out, plate. Meaning: n. ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC).
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91. The allusion to Aristophanes and the comic poet is a part of what Plato calls in Book X of the Republic the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry.
92. "Some excellent remarks were made on immortality, but mainly borrowed from and credited to Plato" (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ).
93. Plato undertook three long and dangerous voyages to Sicily in order to advise the King Dionysius.
94. As far as Hughes can tell (or at least Plato tells), he resists the sexual lures of Alcibiades, famous even centuries later as the most beautiful and dissolute boy of Athens.
95. The last of these figures known to Plato is the icosahedron.
96. The characteristic feature of all utopian plans from that of Plato down to that of Marx is the rigid petrification of all human conditions.
97. Rationalism has a long history in philosophy, Plato ( c. 427 - 347 BC ) was a rationalist.
98. Strongly against monogamy[sentencedict.com], Plato advocated this kind of marriages which were optional combination and postnatal care.
99. This view on the good life however is in direct contrast with what Socrates, Plato and Aristotle preached.
100. Plato has a dualistic theory of technical making, in which "eidos" is in a central position.
101. Three influential philosophers in this field have been Plato, John Locke and Karl Marx.
102. Later translated into Latin by Boethius around 500 AD, Aristotle’s influence spread throughout Syria and Islam whilst Christian Europe ignored him in favour of Plato.
103. Trichotomy of epopee, drama and lyric is not created by Plato, this theory is formed in modern times. The concepts of lyric are different with each other in different times.
104. It was analysis in the sense of Plato, who opposed to synthesis.
105. Math in ancient Greece provided such a key matrix to form a metaphysical tradition in the West, through Pythagoras to Parmenides, Plato, and finally to Aristotle.
106. Though philosophers have a natural penchant for being , Absolutists when they write about education, it is surprisingly hard to find good examples of this position—was Plato an Absolutist?
107. Political philosophy is the oldest of the social sciences and it can boast a wealth of heavy hitters from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli Hobbes Hegel Tocqueville Nietzsche and so on.
108. Well, Plato thinks that the empirical world has something of that kind of insanity, something of that kind contradictoriness, built into it that we don't ordinarily notice.
109. In mental temperament Plato was of an altogether different type from Socrates.
110. Hughes spends less time exploring Socrates’ relationship with Plato than the one he had with Alcibiades.
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111. "Purity" is an Orphic conception, having primarily a ritual meaning, but for Plato it means freedom from slavery to the body and its needs.
112. The Legality of State -- Suppose Plato and Confucianism Encounter Us Today.
113. Plato was born in 427, which is four years after the commencement of the Peloponnesian War.
114. Plato: It is called New York and the plan for Central Park was done by a landscape architect called Frederick Law Olmsted.
115. Socrates'conversations as reported by Plato were full of a shrewd humor.
116. The Republic is also a utopia, a word that Plato does not use, was not coined until many, many centuries later by Sir Thomas More.
117. Plato has found that there are special faculties or cells inside human brains and one's memory power can be developed through these cells.
118. According to the dialogue 'Alcibiades', ascribed to Plato , the Persian Magi were priests, who practiced a form of spiritual mysticism which was their religion.
119. She introduces ancient and contemporary philosophers, including Plato, al - Ghazali, Jean - Paul Sartre.
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