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Plato Net Worth
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Plato information Birth date: -428-01-01 Death date: -348-01-01 Birth place: Athens, Greece Profession:Writer Nationality:Greek
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:How tall is Plato – 1,78m.
How much weight is Plato – 70kg
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Plato (/?ple?to?/, Greek: ??????, Pl?t?n, broad, 428/427 or 424/423 BCE – 348/347 BCE) was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece, and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy. He was Socrates student, and founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with Socrates and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.Platos dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His theory of Forms began a unique perspective on abstract objects, and led to a school of thought called Platonism. Platos writings have been published in several fashions, this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Platos texts.
Biography,Early lifeMain article: Early life of PlatoDue to a lack of surviving accounts, little is known about Platos early life and education. The philosopher came from one of the wealthiest and most politically active families in Athens. Ancient sources describe him as a bright though modest boy who excelled in his studies. His father contributed all which was necessary to give to his son a good education, and, therefore, Plato must have been instructed in grammar, music, gymnastics and philosophy by some of the most distinguished teachers of his era. Birth and familyThe exact time and place of Platos birth are unknown, but it is certain that he belonged to an aristocratic and influential family. Based on ancient sources, most modern scholars believe that he was born in Athens or Aegina[c] between 429 and 423 BCE. His father was Ariston. According to a disputed tradition, reported by Diogenes Laertius, Ariston traced his descent from the king of Athens, Codrus, and the king of Messenia, Melanthus. Platos mother was Perictione, whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon.[11] Perictione was sister of Charmides and niece of Critias, both prominent figures of the Thirty Tyrants, the brief oligarchic regime, which followed on the collapse of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War (404–403 BCE).[12] Besides Plato himself, Ariston and Perictione had three other children, these were two sons, Adeimantus and Glaucon, and a daughter Potone, the mother of Speusippus (the nephew and successor of Plato as head of his philosophical Academy).[12] The brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon are mentioned in the Republic as sons of Ariston,[13] and presumably brothers of Plato, but some have argued they were uncles.[14] But in a scenario in the Memorabilia, Xenophon confused the issue by presenting a Glaucon much younger than Plato.[15]The traditional date of Platos birth (428/427) is based on a dubious interpretation of Diogenes Laertius, who says, When [Socrates] was gone, [Plato] joined Cratylus the Heracleitean and Hermogenes, who philosophized in the manner of Parmenides. Then, at twenty-eight, Hermodorus says, [Plato] went to Euclides in Megara. As Debra Nails argues, The text itself gives no reason to infer that Plato left immediately for Megara and implies the very opposite.[16] In his Seventh Letter, Plato notes that his coming of age coincided with the taking of power by the Thirty, remarking, But a youth under the age of twenty made himself a laughingstock if he attempted to enter the political arena. Thus, Nails dates Platos birth to 424/423.[17]According to some accounts, Ariston tried to force his attentions on Perictione, but failed in his purpose, then the god Apollo appeared to him in a vision, and as a result, Ariston left Perictione unmolested.[18] Another legend related that, when Plato was an infant, bees settled on his lips while he was sleeping: an augury of the sweetness of style in which he would discourse about philosophy.[19]Ariston appears to have died in Platos childhood, although the precise dating of his death is difficult.[20] Perictione then married Pyrilampes, her mothers brother,[21] who had served many times as an ambassador to the Persian court and was a friend of Pericles, the leader of the democratic faction in Athens.[22] Pyrilampes had a son from a previous marriage, Demus, who was famous for his beauty.[23] Perictione gave birth to Pyrilampes second son, Antiphon, the half-brother of Plato, who appears in Parmenides.[24]In contrast to reticence about himself, Plato often introduced his distinguished relatives into his dialogues, or referred to them with some precision: Charmides has a dialogue named after him, Critias speaks in both Charmides and Protagoras, and Adeimantus and Glaucon take prominent parts in the Republic.[25] These and other references suggest a considerable amount of family pride and enable us to reconstruct Platos family tree. According to Burnet, the opening scene of the Charmides is a glorification of the whole [family] connection … Platos dialogues are not only a memorial to Socrates, but also the happier days of his own family.[26]NameAccording to Diogenes Laertius, the philosopher was named Aristocles (??????????) after his grandfather.[27] It was common in Athenian society for boys to be named after grandfathers (or fathers). But there is only one inscriptional record of an Aristocles, an early Archon of Athens in 605/4 BCE. There is no record of a line from Aristocles to Platos father, Ariston. However, if Plato was not named after an ancestor named Plato (there is no record of one), then the origin of his renaming as Plato becomes a conundrum.[28]The sources of Diogenes account for this fact by claiming that his wrestling coach, Ariston of Argos, dubbed him Platon, meaning broad, on account of his robust figure[29] or that Plato derived his name from the breadth (????????, platytes) of his eloquence, or else because he was very wide (??????, platys) across the forehead.[30] Recently a scholar has argued that even the name Aristocles for Plato was a much later invention.[31] Although Platon was a fairly common name (31 instances are known from Athens alone[32]), the name does not occur in Platos known family line. Another scholar, however, claims that there is good reason for not dismissing [the idea that Aristocles was Platos given name] as a mere invention of his biographers, noting how prevalent that account is in our sources.[28] The fact that the philosopher in his maturity called himself Platon is indisputable, but the origin of this naming must remain moot unless the record is made to yield more information.EducationApuleius informs us that Speusippus praised Platos quickness of mind and modesty as a boy, and the first fruits of his youth infused with hard work and love of study.[33] Plato must have been instructed in grammar, music, and gymnastics by the most distinguished teachers of his time.[34] Dicaearchus went so far as to say that Plato wrestled at the Isthmian games.[35] Plato had also attended courses of philosophy, before meeting Socrates, he first became acquainted with Cratylus (a disciple of Heraclitus, a prominent pre-Socratic Greek philosopher) and the Heraclitean doctrines.[36] W. A. Borody argues that an Athenian openness towards a wider range of sexuality may have contributed to the Athenian philosophers openness towards a wider range of thought, a cultural situation Borody describes as polymorphously discursive.[37]Later lifePlato may have traveled in Italy, Sicily, Egypt and Cyrene.[38] Said to have returned to Athens at the age of forty, Plato founded one of the earliest known organized schools in Western Civilization on a plot of land in the Grove of Hecademus or Academus.[39] The Academy was a large enclosure of ground about six stadia outside of Athens proper. One story is that the name of the Academy comes from the ancient hero, Academus. Another story is that the name came from a supposed a former owner, a citizen of Athens also named Academus. Yet another account is that it was named after a member of the army of Castor and Pollux, an Arcadian named Echedemus.[40] The Academy operated until it was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 84 BCE. Neoplatonists revived the Academy in the early 5th century, and it operated until CE 529, when it was closed by Justinian I of Byzantium, who saw it as a threat to the propagation of Christianity. Many intellectuals were schooled in the Academy, the most prominent one being Aristotle.[41][42]Throughout his later life, Plato became entangled with the politics of the city of Syracuse. According to Diogenes Laertius, Plato initially visited Syracuse while it was under the rule of Dionysius.[43] During this first trip Dionysiuss brother-in-law, Dion of Syracuse, became one of Platos disciples, but the tyrant himself turned against Plato. Plato almost faced death, but he was sold into slavery. Then Anniceris[44] bought Platos freedom for twenty minas,[45] and sent him home. After Dionysiuss death, according to Platos Seventh Letter, Dion requested Plato return to Syracuse to tutor Dionysius II and guide him to become a philosopher king. Dionysius II seemed to accept Platos teachings, but he became suspicious of Dion, his uncle. Dionysius expelled Dion and kept Plato against his will. Eventually Plato left Syracuse. Dion would return to overthrow Dionysius and ruled Syracuse for a short time before being usurped by Calippus, a fellow disciple of Plato.DeathA variety of sources have given accounts of Platos death. One story, based on a mutilated manuscript,[46] suggests Plato died in his bed, whilst a young Thracian girl played the flute to him.[47] Another tradition suggests Plato died at a wedding feast. The account is based on Diogenes Laertiuss reference to an account by Hermippus, a third-century Alexandrian.[48] According to Tertullian, Plato simply died in his sleep.[48]
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