The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Plato is, at times, just as suspicious of the poets themselves as he is of their work.

But contrary to Whitehead, philosophy is not a synonym for Plato.

Together with Plato and Socrates ( Plato's teacher ), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

Agathon is portrayed by Plato as a handsome young man, well dressed, of polished manners, courted by the fashion, wealth and wisdom of Athens, and dispensing hospitality with ease and refinement.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

" But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the ambiguous He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate.

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 ".

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

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

Most in cognitive science, however, presumably do not believe their field is the study of anything as certain as the knowledge sought by Plato.

However, Empedocles of Acragas, is best known for having selected all elements as his archai and by the time of Plato, the four Empedoclian elements of were well established.

This also makes fire the element with the smallest number of sides, and Plato regarded it as appropriate for the heat of fire, which he felt is sharp and stabbing, ( like one of the points of a tetrahedra ).

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

In his earliest work, Against the Heathen-On the Incarnation, written before 319, he repeatedly quoted Plato and used a definition from the Organon of Aristotle.

Arne Grøn calls this doctrine " the classic example of a metaphysical idealism as a transcendent idealism ",< ref > Arne Grøn Encyclopedia of Science and Religion while Simone Klein calls Plato " the earliest representative of metaphysical objective idealism ".

Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind ( sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit ) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

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 ".

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

The earliest recorded systems of genre in Western history can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle.

This taxonomy implies a concept of containment or that an idea will be stable forever. The earliest recorded systems of genre in Western history can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle.

Plato was one of the earliest philosophers to provide a detailed discussion of ideas.

Literary historians commonly suppose that in the West Plato ( c. 437 BC – c. 347 BC ) introduced the systematic use of dialogue as an independent literary form: they point to his earliest experiment with the genre in the Laches.

The history of civics dates back to the earliest theories of civics by Confucius in ancient China and Plato in ancient Greece.

They tend to agree also that Plato ’ s earliest works quite faithfully represent the teachings of Socrates and that Plato ’ s own views, which go beyond those of Socrates, appear for the first time in the middle works such as the Phaedo and the Republic.

The earliest written accounts of forest destruction in Southern Europe begin around 1000 BC in the histories of Homer, Thucydides and Plato and in Strabo ’ s Geography.

The earliest proto-social scientific observations are to be found in the founding texts of Western philosophy ( Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Polybius and so on ), as well as in the non-European thought of figures such as Confucius.

Plato produced the earliest surviving text using the term in the rule-by-honor sense.

Plato is regarded as one of the earliest representatives of objective idealism.

In Greek, the earliest fragments ( the Carthage inscription and Flavius Josephus ) write his name as Μανεθων Manethōn, so the rendering of his name here is given as Manetho ( the same way that Platōn is rendered " Plato ").

Plato is among the earliest philosophers to have regarded the universe as an intelligent living being ( see Timaeus ).

Perhaps the earliest digital timepieces were Plato clocks.

The earliest known descriptions of dissection puzzles are from the time of Plato ( 427 – 347 BCE ) in Ancient Greece, and involve the challenge of turning two equal squares into one larger square using four pieces.

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.

In reading On the Sublime, critics have determined that the ancient philosopher and writer Plato is a " great hero " to Longinus.

" argument writer "-in Athens during the time of Plato.

After Eton, he studied at King's College, Cambridge where he gained the chancellor's medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844 .< ref > He was a brilliant writer of Latin verse.

Apuleius ( c. 125 ), a popular writer, expounded an eclectic Platonism in his books On the God of Socrates and On Plato and his Doctrine which are written in Latin.