In Critias, Plato claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC.

Idealism, ( associated with Plato and his school ), claims that there is a " higher " reality, from which certain people can directly arrive at truth without needing to rely only upon the senses, and that this higher reality is therefore the primary source of truth.

Mannheim believed that relativism was a strange mixture of modern and ancient beliefs in that it contained within itself a belief in an absolute truth which was true for all times and places ( the ancient view most often associated with Plato ) and condemned other truth claims because they could not achieve this level of objectivity ( an idea gleaned from Marx ).

In the Hippias Major, Plato claims that Phidias seldom, if ever, have executed works in marble though many of the sculptures of his times were executed in marble.

Plato claims he wrote epic poetry, tragedies, dithyrambs, and various orations, as well works on as grammar, music, rhythm, harmony, and a variety of other subjects.

In the version of his defense speech presented by Plato, he claims that it is the envy he arouses on account of his being a philosopher that will convict him.

The pseudonymous Thirteenth letter of Plato claims that Speusippus married his niece ( his mother's granddaughter ).

Emerson claims that examples of people who trusted themselves above all else include Moses, Plato, and Milton.

The simple fact that, in Plato's Apology of Socrates ( 22c-d ), Socrates claims to be unfamiliar with the knowledge of craftsmen and manual artisans suggests that Plato knew nothing of statuary as the family's trade.

Although theories of intelligence have been discussed by philosophers since Plato, intelligence testing is an invention of educational psychology, and is coincident with the development of that discipline.

Though his sources on Gnosticism were secondary, since the texts in the Nag Hammadi library were not yet widely available, Eric Voegelin ( 1901 – 1985 ), partially building on the concept of gnosis as used by Plato and the followers of Gnosticism, along with how it was defined by Hans Jonas, defined the gnosis of the followers of Gnosticism as religious philosophical teachings that are the foundations of cults.

* Socrates: Widely considered the founder of Western political philosophy, via his spoken influence on Athenian contemporaries ; since Socrates never wrote anything, much of what we know about him and his teachings comes through his most famous student, Plato.

Given that both A and not-A are seen to be “ true ,” Kant concludes that it ’ s not that “ God doesn ’ t exist ” but that there is something wrong with how we are asking questions about God and how we have been using our rational faculties to talk about universals ever since Plato got us started on this track!

He goes on, in subsequent Critiques and other works, to demonstrate his model for the proper use of concepts like “ God ” “ the Good ,” and “ the beautiful ,” effecting the most radical re-evaluation of these ideas since Plato, and changing forever the course of western philosophy.

For Plato it was not possible to have knowledge of anything that could change or was particular, since knowledge had to be forever unfailing and general.

In this vein, he asserted that it was the task of contemporary philosophy to recover the original question of ( or " openness to ") Dasein ( translated as Being or Being-in-the-World ) present in the Presocratic philosophers but normalized, neutered and standardized since Plato.

The notion of a static unchanging Form and its identity with Substance represents the metaphysical view that has come to be held as an assumption by the vast majority of the Western philosophical tradition since Plato and Aristotle, as it was something they agreed on.

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy since Plato has misunderstood what it means for something " to be ", tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about Being itself.

" Misanthropy, then, is presented as the result of thwarted expectations or even excessively naive optimism, since Plato argues that " art " would have allowed the potential misanthrope to recognize that the majority of men are to be found in between good and evil.

Phenomenology, as envisioned by Husserl, is a method of philosophical inquiry that rejects the rationalist bias that has dominated Western thought since Plato in favor of a method of reflective attentiveness that discloses the individual's " lived experience ;" for those with a more phenomenological bent, the goal was to understand experience by comprehending and describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event.

In philosophy, archetypes have, since Plato, referred to as ideal forms of the perceived or sensible objects or types.

As envisioned by Husserl, phenomenology is a method of philosophical inquiry that rejects the rationalist bias that has dominated Western thought since Plato in favor of a method of reflective attentiveness that discloses the individual ’ s “ lived experience .” Loosely rooted in an epistemological device, with Sceptic roots, called epoché, Husserl ’ s method entails the suspension of judgment while relying on the intuitive grasp of knowledge, free of presuppositions and intellectualizing.

In Greek mythology, Enarete () or Aenarete (, Ainarete ), daughter of Deimachus, was the wife of Aeolus and ancestress of the Aeolians .< ref > Enarete is the form found in the manuscripts of Bibliotheca 1. 7. 1, which takes to be a misspelling of Aenarete, the form written in the scholia to Plato, Minos 315c, since Enarete cannot stand in a hexameter line and the Bibliotheca < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s primary source at this point is the epic Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

Quite recently Martin Litchfield West identified 306 lines as a core sequence of verses that can be reliably attributed to Theognis since they contain mention of Cyrnus and are attested by 4th century authorities such as Plato and Aristotle, though the rest of the corpus could still contain some authentic verses.

" As regards his intellectual attainments we may set Julius Hare's verdict " the greatest mind since Plato " over against John Ruskin's " by nature puzzle-headed and indeed wrong-headed.

* Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi stated that Garaudy is " Europe's greater philosopher since Plato and Aristotle.

Dover argues Plato wrote his Symposium first since Plato's Phaedrus uses language that implies that the organization does not yet exist.

He adopts Herodotus's derivation of θεὀς ( theòs ) from τἰθημι ( tithemi ), since God set all things in order, comparing with it that of Plato from θεεῖν ( theein ), because the Deity is ever in motion.

Among the Greeks, Aristotle, Homer, and Plato were now being read in the original for the first time since the 4th century, though Greek compositions were few.

After Plato, the meaning of mimesis eventually shifted toward a specifically literary function in ancient Greek society, and its use has changed and been re-interpreted many times since then.

In the Symposium ( 182B-D ), Plato equates acceptance of homosexuality with democracy, and its suppression with despotism, saying that homosexuality " is shameful to barbarians because of their despotic governments, just as philosophy and athletics are, since it is apparently not in best interests of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or physical unions, all of which love is particularly apt to produce ".

" While some earlier philosophers ( most notably Plato and Descartes ) held that logical statements such as these contained the most formal reality, since they are always true and unchanging, Hume held that, while true, they contain no formal reality, because the truth of the statements rests on the definitions of the words involved, and not on actual things in the world, since there is no such thing as a true triangle or exact equality of length in the world.

In particular, the Babylonian text Dialogue of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialectic and dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic method of Socrates.

However, Plato was critical of the sophists ' views because he believed that rhetoric was simply too dangerous, being based in skill and common opinion ( doxa ).

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.

The Babylonian text Dialog of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic Socratic method of Socrates.

The early sophists ' practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay led to the condemnations made by Socrates, through Plato in his Dialogues, as well as Xenophon's Memorabilia.

Most of these sophists are known today primarily through the writings of their opponents ( specifically Plato and Aristotle ), which makes it difficult to assemble an unbiased view of their practices and beliefs.

Plato, the most famous student of Socrates, depicts Socrates as refuting some sophists in several Dialogues.

The Babylonian text Dialogue of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic Socratic method developed by Socrates.

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.

" As he taught both philosophy and politics, so Plato represents his instructions as chiefly ethical, and gives preference to his distinction of ideas, such as courage, rashness, boldness, over similar attempts of other sophists.

Plato mentions many contemporaries of Socrates, from political figures to sophists, often using them as characters in the dialogs and foils for his criticism.