文档介绍：Plato
(424/423 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
Plato
Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts.
Plato's dialogues have been
used to teach a range of
subjects, including philosophy,
logic, ethics, rhetoric, and mathematics.
Stories about him
The first day of school, Socrates said to the students: "today let's learn a simplest and easiest thing; let us cast his arm forward as far as possible, and then try to swing back." Said Socrates and demonstrated again, "300 times each time and let us start it today, can you?"
The students laughed, what a simple thing, what to do? After a month, Socrates asked the students: "300 times every day of casting, who are sticking to it?" y percent of the students raised his hand proudly. A month later, Socrates asked again, only eighty percent of the students insisted on it this time .
A year later, Socrates asked again: "please tell me, the simplest movement of casting, and who are insisting on it?" At that moment, only one person in the classroom raised his hand. The student is later became another ancient Greek philosopher, Plato.