History Creator / Plato

Platōn of Athens was a Greek philosopher: the first Western philosopher, in fact, from whom we have complete surviving works. His importance is neatly summed up above. He is also the major source for info about his mentor Creator/{{Socrates}}, of whose life he wrote many {{Real Person Fic}}s. Creator/{{Aristotle}} studied under him.

* CanonDiscontinuity: He would censor all disgusting behavior attributed to gods in ClassicalMythology.

* FairForItsDay: His view that DemocracyIsBad, as noted above.

Platōn was a native of Athens and a Greek philosopher: the first Western philosopher, in fact, from whom we have complete surviving works. His importance is neatly summed up above. He is also the major source for info about his mentor Creator/{{Socrates}}, of whose life he wrote many {{Real Person Fic}}s. Creator/{{Aristotle}} studied under him.

Also, for a fun fact, he was a former Olympic ''[[BloodSport pankration]]'' fighter before becoming a philosopher.

''Literature/ApologyOfSocrates'', ''Literature/TheRepublic'' and ''Literature/{{Symposium}}'' have their own pages.

* TheTreacheryOfImages

Aristokles of Athens, nicknamed Platōn ("broad") was a Greek philosopher: the first Western philosopher, in fact, from whom we have complete surviving works. His importance is neatly summed up above. He is also the major source for info about his mentor Creator/{{Socrates}}, of whose life he wrote many {{Real Person Fic}}s. Creator/{{Aristotle}} studied under him.

Also, for a fun fact, he was a former Olympic ''[[BloodSport pankration]]'' fighter before becoming a philosopher, and Plato was actually his ''nom de guerre''.

->The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

* GeniusBruiser: One of the most important philosophers and a champion of ''pankration'', esentially UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts only more brutal.

* GeniusBruiser: On the bruiser side, he was a two-time [[BloodSport pankration]] champion. On the genius side, he was ''Plato''.

* GeniusBruiser: On the bruiser side, he was a two-time [[BloodSport pankration]] champion. On the genius side, he was '''''fucking Plato'''''.
* {{GIFT}}: His allegory of the Ring of Gyges may be the UrExample.
* GoodFeelsGood

* GeniusBruiser: A two-time [[BloodSport pankration]] champion.

** Bertrand Russell remarked of Plato's ''Literature/{{Republic}}'': "Although all the rulers are to be philosophers, there are to be no innovations; a philosopher is to be, for all time, a man who understands and agrees with Plato. When we ask: what will Plato's Republic achieve? The answer is rather humdrum. It will achieve success in wars against roughly equal populations, and it will secure a livelihood for a certain small number of people. It will almost certainly produce no art or science, because of its rigidity; in this respect, as in others, it will be like Sparta. In spite of all the fine talk, skill in war and enough to eat is all that will be achieved. Plato had lived through famine and defeat in Athens; perhaps, subconsciously, he thought the avoidance of these evils the best that statesmanship could accomplish."

** This is averted to a great extent, and yet still present to an extent. Plato criticized all existing forms of governments; all of them were imperfect, none of them were able to deliver what most of the people who lived under them really wanted, and to this day this is still largely true. What Plato advocated for, however, is a system much closer to what we would call a representative form of government, or a Republic, which is a form of indirect democracy. Plato would also have been very appreciative of the modern systems of checks and balances, as well as the modern constitutional forms of government, all of which derive at least in part from his writings.

Aristokles of Athens, nicknamed Platōn ("broad") was a Greek philosopher: the first Western philosopher, in fact, from whom we have complete surviving works. His importance is neatly summed up above. He is also the major source for info about his mentor {{Socrates}}, of whose life he wrote many {{Real Person Fic}}s. Creator/{{Aristotle}} studied under him.

->'''Digory''': It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what ''do'' they teach them at those schools!
--> -- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Last Battle]]''

[[RedDwarf Did not invent the plate.]]

--> -- '''CSLewis''', ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Last Battle]]''

** This is averted to a great extent, and yet still present to an extent. Plato criticized all existing forms of governments; all of them were imperfect, none of them were able to deliver what most of the people who lived under them really wanted, and to this day this is still largely true. What Plato advocated for, however, is a system much closer to what we would call a representative form of government, or a Republic, which is a form of indirect democracy. Plato would also have been very appreciative of the modern systems of checks and balances, as well as the modern constitutional forms of government, all of which derive at least in part from his writings.

--> -- '''[=~C. S. Lewis~=]''', ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Last Battle]]''

Aristokles of Athens, nicknamed Platōn ("broad") was a Greek philosopher: the first Western philosopher, in fact, from whom we have complete surviving works. His importance is neatly summed up above. He is also the major source for info about his mentor {{Socrates}}, of whose life he wrote many {{Real Person Fic}}s. {{Aristotle}} studied under him.