John V. Luce notes that when he writes about the genealogy of Atlantis's kings, Plato writes in the same style as Hellanicus and suggests a similarity between a fragment of Hellanicus's work and an account in the Critias.

Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".

Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.

Plato writes somewhat mockingly that there may have been a rational explanation for her story.

" The change that occurs between Marius and Plato and Platonism ," writes Anthony Ward, " is one from a sense of defeat in scepticism to a sense of triumph in it.

Plato writes that the Form ( or Idea ) of the Good is the ultimate object of knowledge, although it is not knowledge itself, and from the Good, things that are just gain their usefulness and value.

During the course of this study, Derrida not only divulges the exact instances Socrates or his interlocutors make use of this concept, but also reveals the relationship between Plato and Socrates which scholars have kept in secret by questioning the validity of authorship in Plato's letters, where in the second letter Socrates writes: " Consider these fact and take care lest you sometimes come to repent of having now unwisely published your views.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

In his works Plato makes extensive use of the Socratic dialogues in order to discuss contrary positions within the context of a supposition.

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.

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues ( as was Boethius himself ).

Plato was the Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues who founded the Academy in Athens which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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

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.

No works by Socrates himself survive, but his younger friend Plato composed numerous ' Socratic dialogues ', with Socrates as the main character.

His Socratic writings, preserved complete, along with the dialogues of Plato, are the only surviving representatives of the genre of Sokratikoi logoi.

The main dialogues where Plato discusses the ' apeiron ' are the late dialogues Parmenides and the Philebus.

Plato famously formalized < nowiki > the </ nowiki > Socratic elenctic style in prose — presenting Socrates as the curious questioner of some prominent Athenian interlocutor — in some of his early dialogues, such as Euthyphro and Ion, and the method is most commonly found within the so-called " Socratic dialogues ", which generally portray Socrates engaging in the method and questioning his fellow citizens about moral and epistemological issues.

The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues.

Aristotle said that it was the pre-Socratic philosopher Zeno of Elea who invented dialectic, of which the dialogues of Plato are the examples of the Socratic dialectical method.

Many of Plato's dialogues concern the search for a definition of some important concept ( justice, truth, the Good ), and it is likely that Plato was impressed by the importance of definition in mathematics.

Philosophy entered literature in the dialogues of Plato, who converted the give and take of Socratic questioning into written form.

The two dialogues of Plato, the Hippias major and the Hippias minor characterize him as vain and arrogant.

Though purported to be one of the dialogues of Greek philosopher Plato, the Sisyphus is generally believed to be apocryphal, possibly written by one of his pupils.

In his dialogues, Plato described the Socratic method, a form of inquiry and debate intended to stimulate critical thinking and illuminate ideas.

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.

Plato treats him with greater respect than the other sophists, and in several of the Platonic dialogues Socrates appears as the friend of Prodicus.

In the dialogues of Plato he is mentioned or introduced with a certain degree of esteem, compared with the other sophists.

Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus:

Plato believed the elements were geometric forms ( the platonic solids ) and he assigned the cube to the element of earth in his dialogue Timaeus.

Plato posited a " demiurge " of supreme wisdom and intelligence as the creator of the Cosmos in his work Timaeus.

Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus, circa 360 BC.

From Plato come their punishments, their rivers of the underworld and the changing from body to body ; as for the plurality they assert in the Intellectual Realm — the Authentic Existent, the Intellectual-Principle, the Second Creator and the Soul — all this is taken over from the Timaeus.

Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".

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.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, describes a creation myth involving a being called the demiurge ( δημιουργός " craftsman ").

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

* Plato, " Timaeus " 22B, " Critias " 112A ( 4th.

In its original usage the word may also have been a description of meteors, or, as Plato suggested in Timaeus, of the consequences of a close approach between two planetary cosmic bodies, though this is not currently the case.

The Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.

Alchemists later used the Classical elements, the concept of anima mundi, and Creation stories presented in texts like Plato ’ s Timaeus as analogies for their process.

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.

His account of the Creation is almost identical with that of Plato ; he follows the latter's Timaeus closely.

Plato ( 428-348 BCE ) told of the disappearance of a vast island and its powerful civilization, the Atlanteans, in two of his dialogues, Critias and Timaeus.

Donnelly suggested that Atlantis, whose story was told by Plato in the dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, had been destroyed during the same event remembered in the Bible as the Great Flood.

Plato is said to have procured a copy of his book, from which, it was later claimed, Plato composed much of his Timaeus.

The word ὑποτείνουσα was used for the hypotenuse of a triangle by Plato in the Timaeus ( dialogue ) 54d and by many other ancient authors.

* Philo himself had been influenced by Plato ’ s Timaeus, in which Plato called the logos “ the image of God ” and “ the second God ”.