9.5 Vissual essay by

plato

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Background.

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Born in Athens around 427-428 B.C.E. spent his life looking into ethics, virtue, and purpose of life.

Teacher

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Plato learned philosophy from Socrates.

Student.

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Aristotle was his most famous student, born in 384 BCE in the city of Stagira. Based his learning off of observation and reasoning.

Writing.

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Plato and Xenophon are the only two people who wrote about Socrates. Plato wrote the most and it is the only reason we know so much about him.

Socrates death

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Plato was 28 years old when his techer was put to death.

School

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Opened in Athens it stayed open from 387 BC to 529 AD.

Reality

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Presented by senses like sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound.

Quote 1

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"I never understood him, Socrates. My words, too, are only an echo; but I am very willing to say what I have heard: and indeed, as I am going to another place, I ought to be thinking and talking of the nature of the pilgrimage which I am about to make. What can I do better in the interval between this and the setting of the sun?"

Quote 2

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"And if one of your own possessions, an ox or an ass, for example took the liberty of putting himself out of the way when you had given no intimation of your wish that he should die, would you not be angry with him, and would you not punish him if you could?"

Quote 3

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". A fool may perhaps think this: he may argue that he had better run away from his master, not considering that his duty is to remain to the end, and not to run away from the good, and that there is no sense in his running away. But the wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. Now this, Socrates, is the reverse of what was just now said; for upon this view the wise man should sorrow and the fool rejoice at passing out of life."

Quote 4

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"And is this anything but the separation of soul and body? And being dead is the attainment of this separation; when the soul exists in herself, and is parted from the body and the body is parted from the soul? That is death?"

Quote 5

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"But did you ever behold any of them with your eyes? Certainly not. Or did you ever reach them with any other bodily sense? (and I speak not of these alone, but of absolute greatness, and health, and strength, and of the essence or true nature of everything). Has the reality of them ever been perceived by you through the bodily organs? or rather, is not the nearest approach to the knowledge of their several natures made by him who so orders his intellectual vision as to have the most exact conception of the essence of that which he considers?"

The soul

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Socrates believed that a person should not take more than he needs and do nothing for pleasure otherwise it will weigh down the soul on way to the underworld. Stop them from getting to Elysium.