The same rationale was expressed by Plato in Meno, when he wrote that people only act in ways that they perceive will bring them maximum good.

The Timaeus of Plato in the Latin version of Chalcidius was known to him as to his contemporaries and predecessors, and probably he had access to translations of the Phaedo and Meno.

In the Meno Plato ’ s teacher Socrates asserts that it is possible to come to know this truth by a process akin to memory retrieval.

( see Plato, Apology 30b, Euthydemus 280d – 282d, Meno 87d – 89a ).

* Several dialogues by Plato including Plato's Republic, Meno and The Apology.

In his dialogue Meno, Plato has the character Meno accuse Socrates of " stunning " people with his puzzling questions, in a manner similar to the way the torpedo fish stuns with electricity.

Meno () is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato.

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He also edited some of the dialogues of Plato with English notes including Meno, Parmenides, Statesman, and The Laws, and translated nearly the whole of that author and the Greek anthology for Bohn's Classical library.

In his Meno, Plato raises an important epistemological quandary: How is it that we have certain ideas which are not conclusively derivable from our environments?

In the Gorgias written years later Plato has Socrates contemplating the possibility of himself on trial before the Athenians: he says he would be like a doctor prosecuted by a pastry chef before a jury of children.

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

Although Plato does not have an explicit theory of natural law ( he almost never uses the phrase natural law except in Gorgias 484 and Timaeus 83e ), his concept of nature, according to John Wild, contains some of the elements found in many natural law theories.

In " Gorgias ," one of his Socratic Dialogues, Plato defines rhetoric as the persuasion of ignorant masses within the courts and assemblies.

Plato ( 427-347 BC ) famously outlined the differences between true and false rhetoric in a number of dialogues ; particularly the Gorgias and Phaedrus wherein Plato disputes the sophistic notion that the art of persuasion ( the sophists ' art which he calls " rhetoric "), can exist independent of the art of dialectic.

Famously Plato argued against sophist thinkers such as Gorgias of Leontini, who held the physical world cannot be experienced except through language, this meant that for Gorgias the question of truth was dependent on aesthetic preferences or functional consequences.

In the Gorgias, Plato ( c. 400 BC ) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.

He was supposed to judge the souls of easterners, Aeacus those of westerners, while Minos had the casting vote ( Plato, Gorgias 524A ).

His favourite style seems to have been dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as on Alcibiades in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho.

The Apology of Plato unites him with Gorgias and Hippias as among those who were considered competent to instruct the youth in any city.

Thrasymachus ’ s views are restatements of a position which Plato discusses earlier on in his writings, in the Gorgias, through the mouthpiece of Callicles.

As a scholar Thompson devoted his attention almost entirely to Plato ; and his Phaedrus ( 1868 ) and Gorgias ( 1871 ), with especially valuable introductions, remained as the standard English editions of these two dialogues for over forty years.

The Torah, and the study of ethics which forms a part of practical philosophy and is designated, by an expression borrowed from Plato (" Gorgias ," 464 ), as the " doctrine of the healing of souls ," are the guiding stars to this exalted plane ; but no scientific presentation of practical philosophy approaches in this regard the lofty heights of the Scriptures, wherein are clearly expressed the most sublime moral principles known to philosophers ( ib.

Their influence was likewise longlasting ; Gorgias, a Sophist, argued in the style of the Eleatics in On Nature or What Is Not, and Plato acknowledged them in the Parmenides, the Sophist and the Statesman.

( As Sachs points out, this is indeed what Plato depicts Socrates doing in his Gorgias.

Among his writings and publications are these: Editions of the Alcestis of Euripides ( 1834 ), of the Antigone of Sophocles ( 1835 ), of the Prometheus of &# 198 ; schylus ( 1837 ), of the Electra of Sophocles ( 1837 ), and of the Gorgias of Plato ( 1843 ); an edition of Lieber's Civil liberty and Self Government, and:

Plato mentions Epicharmus in his dialogue Gorgias and in Theaetetus.

Plato made extensive use of this tone in his Gorgias, Euthydemus, Republic, and Laws, and it is thematic in Xenophon's Symposium and the fourth book of his Memorabilia.

Metrodorus also wrote Against the Euthyphro, and Against the Gorgias of Plato.

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.

Some have argued that Gorgias may have been uncharacteristically portrayed by Plato, because "… Plato's Gorgias agrees to the binary opposition knowledge vs. opinion " ( 82 ).

All through The Republic, Plato attends to the way art relates to the general life and ultimately to a good life for his citizens.

Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.

Clement, following Plato ( Republic 4: 441 ), divides life into three elements: character, actions and passions.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

* Plato, The Republic, translated by Desmond Lee, Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-14-044914-0, ISBN 978-0-14-044914-3

Politically motivated educational reforms of the democratic type are recorded as far back as Plato in The Republic.

At first approaching the subject through The Republic by Plato, he soon turned to contemporary ideas of socialism as expressed by the recently formed Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of William Morris.

In his dialogue Republic, Plato uses Socrates to argue for justice that covers both the just person and the just City State.

In Republic by Plato, the character Thrasymachus argues that justice is the interest of the strong — merely a name for what the powerful or cunning ruler has imposed on the people.

In the Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas describes the " problem of misogyny " and states

Although Plato famously condemned poetic myth when discussing the education of the young in the Republic, primarily on the grounds that there was a danger that the young and uneducated might take the stories of Gods and heroes literally, nevertheless he constantly refers to myths of all kinds throughout his writings.

* The Republic ( Plato ), a dialogue by Plato

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

The majority of Proclus ' works are commentaries on dialogues of Plato ( Alcibiades, Cratylus, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus ).

These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by Plato in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work.

* Plato, The Republic.

In the Republic Plato makes Socrates tell how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.

by Plato in The Republic, Book ii, Ch.

Plato, in his dialogue The Republic Book 6 ( 509D – 513E ), has Socrates explain through the literary device of a divided line his fundamental metaphysical ideas as four separate but logically connected models of the world.

In The Republic ( 509d-510a ), Plato describes the Divided Line this way:

* The Republic ( written around 380 BC ) by Plato is one of the earliest conceptions of a utopia.

* Plato, Republic ( esp.