Plato: The Republic And Life

Plato: The Republic and Life

Plato (c. 428-C. 347 a.C.), Greek philosopher, one of the most nflucent thinkers in the entire history of philosophy. Plato was a Greek disciple of Socrates, somehow influence Plato in his writings, transcribed Socrates’s thoughts in his multiple writings. In the vast majority of Plato’s writings they are dialogues and letters. When writing, it almost always begins with questions or crosses from his writings formula them and from there all dialogue or narration is formed.The philosophers had a characteristic which was that problem wanted to solve through their investigations.

One of Platon’s beliefs is the theory of way or theory of ideas, typically refers to the belief that the material world, as it seems to us, is not the real world, but only a ‘image’ or ‘copy’ of the world real. In Plato’s dialogues, this is expressed by Socrates, who talked about the forms when creating a solution to the universal problem. The forms are abstract representations of the types of things and properties that we feel and see around us, which can only be perceived by reason. In other words, he was able to recognize two worlds: the apparent world, which constantly changes, and a world of unmbiable ways.

Through a systematic and ontological approach, Plato tried to explain the meaning of the human being, studying its existence from different areas. In this way, he sowed the seeds of philosophy, but also of politics and epistemology. A quite recurring theme in his works is the social aspect.

The idea of ​​him of the ideal state was based on the need for ethics for harmonic coexistence between people of all kinds, exalting justice at all times.

Stanford’s philosophy encyclopedia describes Plato as’ … one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, broad and influential authors in the history of philosophy … was not the first thinker or writer whom The word ‘philosopher’ should be applied. But he was so self-conscious about how philosophy should be conceived, and what is its scope and ambition ethical, political, metaphysical and epistemological, armed with a distinctive method- can be called its invention. 

Approximately few authors in the history of Western philosophy approximate he.