Posted by SIDHARTH on Jan. 24, 2013, 12:20 p.m.
| Plato (??????) | |
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 Plato: copy of portrait bust by Silanion |
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| Born | c. 428–427 BC[1] Athens |
| Died | c. 348–347 BC (aged c.?80) Athens |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Known for | Platonic realism |
| Influenced by | Socrates, Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Aesop, Protagoras, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Orphism |
| Influenced | Most of subsequent western philosophy, including Aristotle, Augustine, Neoplatonism, Cicero, Plutarch, Stoicism, Anselm, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Mill, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Gadamer, Imam Khomeini, Russell and countless other philosophers and theologians |
| Parents | Perictione Ariston |