Examples of Plato in the following topics:
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- The three most famous Classical Greek philosophers are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- Of these philosophers, the most famous are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- Plato was an Athenian of the generation after Socrates.
- He eventually enrolled at Plato's Academy.
- Aristotle is often portrayed as disagreeing with his teacher, Plato.
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- A painting symbolizing the liberal arts, depicting individuals representing the seven areas of liberal arts study, all circling around Plato and Socrates.
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- Unlike Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, these institutions were officially supported by the Ptolemies, although the extent of patronage could be precarious, depending on the policies of the current ruler.
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- The Babylonian text Dialogue of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic Socratic method of Socrates.
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- In contrast with Plato and Aristotle, Machiavelli insisted that an imaginary ideal society is not a model by which a prince should orient himself.
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- Additionally, it brings to the forefront themes
of justice and suffering in a similar manner to the philosophical texts of
Aristotle and Plato.
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- By 1200 there were reasonably accurate Latin translations of the main works of Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Archimedes, and Galen—that is, all the intellectually crucial ancient authors except Plato.