Plato

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Some notes on Plato

A student of Socrates Primary writer about Socrates’ success Wrote “The Republic” as a history of Socrates’ philosophers, and is considered to be a reflection of his own philosophy “The Republic” //Book VI Theory of the Forms// Four affectations occuring in the soul, ranked in sectioned hierachy as follows:
 * 1) Intellection or Reason
 * 2) Understanding
 * 3) Belief
 * 4) Thinking or Conjecture

//Book VII The Cave// People are living in a “cave” - they represent the "uneducated" What they perceive as real material objects as just shadows of the real thing If anyone gets out of the cave they see the “light” and the real world They become ridiculed when they come back to tell of the real world Education involves 'breaking those chains and leading a person from the cave into the bright sunshine" Reed & Johnson (2000) This is achieved by involving the student in a dialectical process leading them as far as they are capable Further reference - view the movie //'The Matrix':// Those in the Matrix are the prioners, Neo is released and sees the real world. He returns to 'educate' those seeing the 'shadows' the Matrix provides (with some cool slow motion action scenes on the way!) media type="custom" key="3531698"

[] Plato was a student of Socrates who carried Socrates work. He founded the worlds first University, called the academy. He wrote down his teachings, and people all over the world study him today.He is also the father of political science. He later went on to teach Aristotle. Plato was a wrestler as a youth, and he chose the name Plato ("broad-shouldered") as a wrestling name. broad-shouldered Socrates and Plato both were ancient Greek philosophers-both founding fathers of philosophy.