In accordance with the Greek theorists, the Muslims considered Aristotle to be a dogmatic philosopher, the author of a closed system, and believed that Aristotle shared with Plato essential tenets of thought.

According to Plato, it is associated with the octahedron ; air is considered to be both hot and wet.

The game, Night Trap, was not a great success, but is considered a pioneering title as it was the first game to use live actors, specifically a well known personality ( Plato ).

Toward the end of her career, Plato chose roles that could be considered erotic or even softcore pornography.

Plato played a lesbian and the film was rated X due to sexual content, but it was not considered hardcore pornography.

Aristotle was considered to give a more important position to sense perception than Plato, and commentators in the middle ages summarized one of his positions as " nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu " ( Latin for " nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses ").

* 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.

As universals were considered by Plato to be ideal forms, this stance is confusingly also called Platonic idealism.

In these commentaries he presents his own philosophical system as a faithful interpretation of Plato, and in this he did not differ from other Neoplatonists, as he considered the Platonic texts to be divinely inspired ( ho theios Platon -- The divine Plato, inspired by God ) and therefore that they spoke often of things under a veil, hiding the truth from the philosophically uninitiate.

Thus, Plato considered any speech of lengthy prose aimed at flattery as within the scope of rhetoric.

Plato considered Carthage to have been a republic as it had a political system similar to that of the Greek cities.

Plato and Aristotle both explored the relationship between signs and the world, and Augustine considered the nature of the sign within a conventional system.

The first museum / library is considered to be the one of Plato in Athens.

Plotinus was not claiming to innovate with the Enneads, but to clarify aspects of the works of Plato that he considered misrepresented or misunderstood.

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

Aristotle, who had been taught by Plato, denied that women were slaves or subject to property, arguing that " nature has distinguished between the female and the slave ", but he considered wives to be " bought ".

Plato appears to have considered The Clouds a contributing factor in Socrates ' trial and execution in 399 BCE.

Consequently, Plato considered that knowledge of material things is not really knowledge ; real knowledge can only be had of unchanging ideas.

The term is considered philosophically useful, however, as what came to be known as the Athenian school ( composed of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ) signaled a profound shift in the subject matter and methods of philosophy ; Friedrich Nietzsche's thesis that this profound shift began with Plato rather than with Socrates ( hence his nomenclature of " pre-Platonic philosophy ") was not sufficient to prevent the rise and perpetuation of the phrase " pre-Socratic philosophy.

A further nine dialogues are ascribed to Plato but were considered spurious even in antiquity.

Plato and Aristotle considered that latrocinium was a way of life like fishing or hunting.

The classical definition, described but not ultimately endorsed by Plato, specifies that a statement must meet three criteria in order to be considered knowledge: it must be justified, true, and believed.

Plato believed that for us to have a perception of beauty there must be a transcendent form for beauty in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful also.

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, 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.

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.

Plato famously held, on one interpretation, that there is a realm of abstract forms or universals apart from the physical world ( see theory of the forms ).

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!

Plato believed there to be a sharp distinction between the world of perceivable objects and the world of universals or forms: one can only have mere opinions about the former, but one can have knowledge about the latter.

This theory is similar to reincarnation, though there are differences — for example, Plato only believed in one earthly life.

According to Plato, there are some forms that are not instantiated at all, but, he contends, that does not imply that the forms could not be instantiated.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

In Phaedo, Plato makes his teacher Socrates, prior to his death, state ; " I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, and that the living spring from the dead.

And it has been claimed, though controversially, that there were elements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle.

This sets him apart from previous philosophers such as Plato or the Scholastics, who thought that there must be some connection between a signifier and the object it signifies.

Plato, on the other hand, holds that there is no body outside ( the Forms are not outside because they are nowhere ), yet that the infinite is present not only in the objects of sense but in the Forms also.

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.

For Plato, this meant that there had to be two different realities: the " essential " and the " perceived ".

The attacks of some of their followers against Socrates prompted a vigorous condemnation from his followers, including Plato and Xenophon, as there was a popular view of Socrates as a sophist.

there is no such thing as ignorance " and demands of Plato to " Refute me.

His great skill seems to have consisted in delivering grand show speeches ; and Plato has him arrogantly declaring that he would travel to Olympia, and there deliver before the assembled Greeks an oration on any subject that might be proposed to him ; and Philostratus in fact speaks of several such orations delivered at Olympia, and which created great sensation.

Judy and Jim go to an abandoned mansion ; Plato finds them there ( he was the one who told Jim about the house ).

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

This is one of the passages that leads some to infer that the Good is, for Plato, God, though there is some dispute about this point.

If there is parody in the Satyricon it is not about the main characters — Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos — but of the described social reality, and the literary genres of certain famous poets and writers, Homer, Plato, Virgil and Cicero included.

Dadosky quotes Robert Segal, a professor of religion, who draws a distinction between Platonism and Eliade's " primitive ontology ": for Eliade, the ideal models are patterns that a person or object may or may not imitate ; for Plato, there is a Form for everything, and everything imitates a Form by the very fact that it exists.