Every Heart Sings A Song, Incomplete...
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete,
until another heart whispers back.
Those who wish to sing,
always find a song"
- Plato
until another heart whispers back.
Those who wish to sing,
always find a song"
- Plato
Plato, 424/423 – 348/347 BCE, was an Athenian philosopher
during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school
of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the
Western world.
He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of
Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his
most famous student, Aristotle. Plato has also often been cited as one of the
founders of Western religion and spirituality. The so-called Neoplatonism of
philosophers like Plotinus and Porphyry influenced Saint Augustine and thus
Christianity. 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."
Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and
dialectic forms in philosophy. Plato is also considered the founder of Western
political philosophy. His most famous contribution is the theory of Forms known
by pure reason, in which Plato presents a solution to the problem of universals
known as Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic
idealism). He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids
His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually
thought to have been along with Socrates, the pre-Socratics Pythagoras,
Heraclitus and Parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain
extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato
himself. Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, Plato's entire
body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. Although
their popularity has fluctuated over the years, the works of Plato have never been
without readers since the time they were written.
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