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Allegory Of The Cave
Plato has Socrates describe a gathering of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to designate names to these shadows. The shadows are…
| born | Classical Athens |
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| died | Athens, Greece |
| description | Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. |
| books | A Very Short Introduction, Timaeus, Ion, Crito, Timaeus et Critias, Republic, Phaedo |
| quotations | “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”,One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Music is a moral law. |
| information | Influenced by: Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Homer, Protagoras, Gorgias, Hesiod Parents: Ariston of Athens, Perictione Siblings: Glaucon, Adeimantus of Collytus, Potone, Antiphon |
