Plato
Plato
1."Plato's beloved teacher was tried on trumped-up charges of impiety and corrupting youth, and sentenced to death. In Plato's eyes, democracy was now tarred wit hthe same brush as tyranny." [19]
2."Possibly during his stay in Megara, or during a stop on his travels, Plato wrote his earliest extant works. These are in the form of dialogues and are heavily influenced by Socrates, both personally and intellectually." [20]
3."No less than three of Platos's early dialogues -The Apology, Crito, and Euthyphron- as well as the later Phaedo, are devoted to the trial, prison days, amd ultimate death of Socrates. These events had a profound effect on Plato, and his description of them ranks alongside Hamlet and Dante's Inferno in Western literature. The Apology describes Socrates' trial and the seventy-year-old philosopher's defense of himself before the people of Athens." [20-21]
4."The central feature of Plato's philosophy is his Theory of Ideas (or4 Forms), which he......
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