That's Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche and Bill Clinton.

Plato would reject this view. So should we.

Plato thought that the universe was made up of triangles.

Parmenides () is one of the dialogues of Plato.

Plato in the cave with those very young boys. Sweeney Ooh...

But Plato would probably be most amazed by the world s moral progress.

Let's look to the plays of Shakespeare, the dialogues of Plato, the novels of Jane Austen.

Plato would probably head to a leading global technology hub Google s California headquarters.

As Plato said, what space is to size, time is to value.

The Laws (Greek Νόμοι Latin De Legibus ) is Plato's last and longest dialogue.

And at the end of my talk, you would all stand up and you would go, Thank you Plato, thank you Shakespeare, thank you Jane Austen.

Unlike Aristotle, Plato deemed women fit for the highest of positions in his republic.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow Plato's advice and start with mathematics.

At the head of the Old he put Plato, at the head of the Middle Academy, Arcesilaus, and of the New, Lacydes.

In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus and many others explored aspects of same sex love in ancient Greece.

The fifth thing is that maybe, after 2,500 years, Plato is still having his way with us in his notion of perfect forms.

In Plato s Apology, Socrates advocates for the examined life the habit of rigorous self reflection and posing hard, heterodox, and possibly upsetting questions.

For example, though Plato opposed the enslavement of Greeks, he like every other ancient Greek condoned the enslavement of barbarians (non Greeks).

As Plato s teacher knew and as every fresh report of the tech sector s abusive behavior should remind us a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

I think of all the poetry that I've read about romantic love, what sums it up best is something that is said by Plato, over 2,000 years ago.

Writings Among the extant writings of Olympiodorus the Younger are a biography of Plato, commentaries on several dialogues of Plato and on Aristotle, and an introduction to Aristotelian philosophy.

As the future tyrant of Syracuse, Dion, who was also a student of Plato, recruited Calippus as a member of his army which successfully invaded Syracuse.

DAVOS What would happen if the ancient Greek philosopher Plato partook in contemporary dialogues about the types of questions that he first posed, and that continue to vex us?

Sit them in a classroom, tell them about Plato at the age of 20, send them out for a career in management consultancy for 40 years, and that lesson will stick with them.

But even great philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and others could only describe current mental events and behaviors they could not explain their causes.

So something which is trash, which is choking all the seabirds, you could just recycle this into a very, very joyous all the platonic solids can be made with things like this.

Today, by contrast, even an emphatically non philosophical person say, Plato s media escort could easily explain why slavery is wrong A person is a person.

Plato held that moral progress is essentially an intellectual process, driven by reasoned arguments a stance that many of the most influential moral philosophers, from Baruch Spinoza and Immanuel Kant to John Rawls and Peter Singer, have supported.

Olympiodorus the Younger ( c. 495 570) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astrologer and teacher who lived in the early years of the Byzantine Empire, after Justinian's Decree of 529 AD which closed Plato's Academy in Athens and other pagan schools.

Such thinking reflects an age old fear as Plato put it, citizens would get information without proper instruction and, in consequence, be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant .

Rumors of the ceremony that circulated among other Greeks revolved around the theme of human sacrifice and cannibalism according to Plato, a particular clan would gather on the mountain to make a sacrifice every nine years to Zeus Lykaios, and a single morsel of human entrails would be intermingled with the animal's.