Plato, Philosopher of Athens and Student of Socrates Plato, the renowned student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, was born in Athens in either 428 or 427 BC. Credit: Public Domain Plato, the ...
He was also, in some accounts, responsible for thwarting an attack on Athens by the Spartans. Plato had been a disciple of Socrates, and Aristotle was his most famous pupil. The ostensible purpose of ...
Plato, one of the greatest Greek philosophers of all time—with whom one might claim that, along with Aristotle, Greece intellectually conquered the world ... all of which he burned as soon as he began ...
While Aristotle glamorised democracy as the most viable political system ... Due to the presence of the sophists, democracy degenerated, Socrates believed, and this belief gave birth to Plato’s ...