Friday, January 06, 2006

Plato

One of the most influential Greek writers and philosophers, Plato wrote several works showing that the Athenians who condemned Socrates were wrong, wrong, wrong. He also used Socrates in his famous dialogues to propound a number of ideas that may have originated with Socrates or with Plato himself. We can hardly think of Socrates without bumping into Plato.

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