Plato

Birthplace

Athens, Greece

Birthday

428/427 or 424/423 BC

Death Date

348/347 BC (age c. 80)

Plato

About

Classical Greece philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens who is widely considered the pivotal figure in the development of Western philosophy.

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He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. He was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. His most famous contribution is Platonism, "the doctrine of the Forms to provide a realist solution to the problem of universals."

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