" Plato also remarks in the Republic ( 394c ) that dithyrambs are the clearest example of poetry in which the poet is the only speaker.

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.

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.

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

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 writes the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, first mentioning Atlantis.

* 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 ”.

Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's " Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded.

Plato refers to Gibraltar as one of the Pillars of Hercules along with Jebel Musa or Monte Hacho on the other side of the Strait.

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.

There is clear evidence of this in Plato, who refers to competitors in the Panhellenic Games, with opponents numbering in the thousands.

According to Machiavelli refers to Xenophon more than Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero put together.

The word is found in the writings of Ancient Greece, especially that of Plato in ethical discussions of the dialogue Charmides where it refers to the avoidance of excess in daily life.

The Socratic problem refers to the difficulty or inability of determining what in Plato's writings is an accurate portrayal of Socrates ' thought and what is the thought of Plato with Socrates as a literary device.

However, more correctly, innatism refers to the philosophy of Plato and Descartes, who assumed that a God or a similar being or process placed innate ideas and principles in the human mind.

Plato usually refers to the ancient Greek philosopher.

In Gorgias, Plato refers to an " inevitable absurdity " as the outcome of reasoning from a false assumption.

Similarly to Aristotle, who rejected the immaterial things, and in contrast to Plato whose metaphysics accepted immaterial substances, Philoponus ’ concept of substance refers to the material objects.

Plato envisaged God as a Demiurge or ' craftsman '.

Thus their understanding of the Demiurge is similarly flawed in comparison to Plato ’ s original intentions.

But Plato said nothing about the Demiurge architect-of-the-world himself being perfect.

The concept of the Demiurge as a benevolent great architect or grand architect of matter occurs in the writings of Plato, including in the Timaeus.

Numenius also draws much from Plato ’ s Timaeus which presents a story of a great creator called the Demiurge who created everything in the likeness of Platonic Forms.

While reincarnation has been a matter of faith in some communities from an early date it has also frequently been argued for on principle, as Plato does when he argues that the number of souls must be finite because souls are indestructible, Benjamin Franklin held a similar view.

Justified true belief is a definition of knowledge that is most frequently credited to Plato and his dialogues.

He frequently remarks on his own ignorance, however, claiming that he does not know what courage is, for example ; Plato presents him as distinguishing himself from the common run of mankind by the fact that, while they know nothing noble and good, they do not know that they do not know, whereas he knows that he knows nothing noble and good.

Although the successor to Plato in the Academy, he frequently diverged from Plato's teachings.

Schopenhauer frequently acknowledges drawing on Plato in the development of his theories and, particularly in the context of aesthetics, speaks of the Platonic forms as existing on an intermediate ontological level between the representation and the Will.

This appears early on in the literature of philosophy, where philosophers such as Plato wrote dialogues in which fictional or fictionalized characters discuss philosophical subjects ; Socrates frequently appears as a protagonist in Plato's dialogues, and the dialogues are one of the prime sources of knowledge about Socrates ' teaching, though at this remove it is sometimes hard to distinguish Socrates ' actual positions from Plato's own.

The driver finishing 10th in the first of the meeting's 3 races had pole ( and a light car ) for race 2, and the winner of race 2 had pole for race 3 ( although with a now-heavier car ), so Plato frequently dropped back to 10th in race one, often going on to win races 2 and 3.