Plato's number is a number enigmatically referred to by Plato in his dialogue the Republic (8.546b). The text is notoriously difficult to understand and...

authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (dikaiosúnē), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known...

Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect...

universals Substantial form Platonic solid Plato's unwritten doctrines, for debates over Forms and Plato's higher, esoteric theories Realism (disambiguation)...

English), Plato's characters do not propose a republic in the modern English sense of the word. In the Republic, Plato's Socrates raises a number of criticisms...

from Plato himself. Along with his teacher Socrates, and his student Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. Plato's complete...

Letter, gesture at the doctrines of Plato's philosophy. Only two, the Second and Seventh, directly reference Plato's teacher Socrates, the major figure...

Gutenberg has English translations of Plato's Apology of Socrates: Translated by Benjamin Jowett, 1891 Bundled with Plato's Crito and Phaedo, translated by...

Plato was the first known person in the history of western philosophy to believe that the soul was both the source of life and the mind. In Plato's dialogues...

Greek: Τίμαιος, romanized: Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus...

Transformation of Plato's Republic. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 191. ISBN 0739111876. Crombie, I. M. (2012). An Examination of Plato's Doctrines: Plato on Knowledge...

romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, or the Platonic Academy, was founded in Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. The academy is regarded as...

in Plato's Symposium, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 76 (1945), pp. 85–103. Strauss, Leo. On Plato's Symposium...

natural number following 215 and preceding 217. It is a cube, and is often called Plato's number, although it is not certain that this is the number intended...

Forms in Plato's Phaedo." Hermathena, 169: 57–68. Sedley, David. 1995. "The Dramatis Personae of Plato's Phaedo." [In] Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume...

is noteworthy as Plato's only undisputed dialogue not to feature Socrates. Athenian Stranger Cleinias Megillus Unlike most of Plato's dialogues, Socrates...

with the first one sometimes identified as the mysterious Plato's number. The formula F for finding the sum of n cubes of numbers in arithmetic...

father though that is not supported by any of Plato's own writings. In the surviving fragment of On Plato's Secret Doctrines by Numenius of Apamea he suggests...

complete solution to the four cubes problem as in Plato's number 33 + 43 + 53 = 63 or the taxicab number 1729. The general solution of the equation x 1 3...

Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports...

Plato's 'principle theory' (German: Prinzipienlehre) because they involve two fundamental principles from which the rest of the system derives. Plato...

written texts. It seems proper to recall that Plato's ever-present protagonist and ideal man, Socrates, fits Plato's description of the dialectician perfectly...

"Introduction". Plato's Meno in Focus. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-00297-4. Retrieved 12 March 2023. Klein, Jacob. 1965. A Commentary on Plato's Meno. Chapel...

of the agora. Plato's representation of Socrates is a literary work, so the historical validity of what was said and how much of Plato's interpretation...

and Critias would not be the only anachronism in Plato's work. In fact, Plato produced quite a number of anachronisms in many of his dialogues. And further...

after Plato's death. There were three periods: the Old, Middle, and New Academy. The chief figures in the Old Academy were Speusippus (Plato's nephew)...

city-state ruled by philosophers is first explored in Plato's Republic, written around 375 BC. Plato argued that the ideal state – one which ensured the...

the Good" (ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα), is a concept in the philosophy of Plato. In Plato's Theory of Forms, in which Forms are defined as perfect, eternal, and...

Antigone and Aristophanes' Wasps before Plato. During the Renaissance, Sebastian Brant amplified and reworked Plato's text in a satirical book called Ship...

sensory perception. Plato develops the theory of anamnesis in his Socratic dialogues: Meno, Phaedo, and Phaedrus. In Meno, Plato's character (and old teacher)...