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Plato's conception of Forms actually differs from dialogue to dialogue, and in certain respects it is never fully explained, so many aspects of the theory are open to interpretation. Forms are first introduced in the Phaedo , but in that dialogue the concept is simply referred to as something the participants are already familiar with, and the ...
Plato (/ ˈ p l eɪ t oʊ / PLAY-toe; [1] Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; born c. 428–423 BC, died 348 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Name Date Content Institution Papyrus 2993 : 300 BC-200 BC: Sophist 223-224: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library P.Oxy.XXXIII 2662 : 100 BC-100 AD: Meno 92E-93B: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
Some of Plato's proposals have led theorists like Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom to ask readers to consider the possibility that Socrates was creating not a blueprint for a real city, but a learning exercise for the young men in the dialogue.
Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato, Translated with a Running Commentary. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-87220-386-0. Gregory, A. (2000). Plato's Philosophy of Science. London: Duckworth. Kalderon, Mark Eli (2023). Cosmos and Perception in Plato's Timaeus: In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm. Taylor & Francis.
Plato's student Aristotle disagreed with his tutor. Aristotle transformed Plato's forms into " formal causes ", the blueprints or essences of individual things. Whereas Plato idealized geometry , Aristotle emphasized nature and related disciplines and therefore much of his thinking concerns living beings and their properties.
Cratylus (/ ˈ k r æ t ɪ l ə s / KRAT-il-əs; Ancient Greek: Κρατύλος, Kratylos) is the name of a dialogue by Plato.Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. [1]
The Theaetetus is one of the few works of Plato that gives contextual clues on the timeline of its authorship: The dialogue is framed by a brief scene in which Euclid of Megara and his friend Terpsion witness a wounded Theataetus returning on his way home after from fighting in an Athenian battle at Corinth, from which he apparently died of his wounds.