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Original in the Vatican Museums in Rome
Along with his teacher Socrates, Plato was one of the most important philosophers of antiquity.
The noble thinker Plato (lat. Plato) led the questioning conversation of Socrates to a dialectical discussion of the knowledge of good and virtue, to ideas.
Plato describes the way to the knowledge of ideas in the cave parable.
Plato (427 - 347 B.C.) exerted an enormous influence on the development of philosophy. Up to the present day, every objective idealism in one form or another has taken up platonic motifs of thought.
Even in the rationalist thought systems of R. Descartes, Baruch de Spinoza and G. W. Leibniz Plato's thoughts had an effect.
Plato's works, there are 22 treatises, are all preserved. The most important are "Apology", "Kriton" and "Phaidon", in which he quotes his teacher Socrates, as well as "Symposion", "Protagoras", "Politeia", "Parmenides" and "Nomoi".
One of Plato's most famous students was the later educator and teacher Alexander the Great, the naturalist and philosopher Aristotle, founder of the Peripatetic School.
Even today we still call platonic love a non-sensual, idealized love bond, in the philosophical sense love in the metaphysical interpretation of Plato (in his work "Symposion").
Two quotes from Plato: "If you want to heal the body, you must first heal the soul."
"Learn to listen, and you will also benefit from those who speak only silly things."
The original of the Platon bust, the so-called Sala delle Muse, is exhibited in the Vatican in Rome. It was made as a Roman copy after a Greek bronze statue.
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