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Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called Platonic or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which do not imply acceptance of that philosophy as a whole. It may also refer to: * Platonic love, a relationship that is not sexual in nature * Platonic forms, or the theory of forms, Plato's model of existence * Platonic idealism * Platonic solid, any of the five convex regular polyhedra * Platonic crystal, a periodic structure designed to guide wave energy through thin plates * Platonism, the philosophy of Plato (Classical period) * Middle Platonism, a later philosophy derived from that of Plato (1st century BC to 3rd century AD) * Neoplatonism, a philosophic school of Late Antiquity deriving from Plato (starting in the 3rd century AD) * Platonism in the Renaissance {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
