Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

This makes water the element with the greatest number of sides, which Plato regarded as appropriate because water flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls.

Plato made her film debut in 1977 at the age of thirteen in Return to Boggy Creek.

Plato does not propose creation ex nihilo ; rather, the demiurge made order from the chaos of the cosmos, imitating the eternal Forms.

For example, in the brewing industry, the Plato table, which lists sucrose concentration by weight against true SG, were originally ( 20 ° C / 4 ° C ) that is based on measurements of the density of sucrose solutions made at laboratory temperature ( 20 ° C ) but referenced to the density of water at 4 ° C which is very close to the temperature at which water has its maximum density of ρ () equal to 0. 999972 g / cm < sup > 3 </ sup > ( or 62. 43 lb < sub > m </ sub >· ft < sup >− 3 </ sup >).

In this, he follows Karl Popper, who blamed the idea of the state as a made order on Plato in The Open Society and its Enemies.

Philosophers, mathematicians, and others ancient and modern such as Aristotle, Plato, Frege, Wittgenstein, Russell etc., have made a distinction between thought corresponding to reality, coherent abstractions, and that which cannot even be rationally thought.

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.

By bringing Chrysoloras to Florence, Salutati made it possible for a select group of scholars ( including Bruni and Vergerio ) to read Aristotle and Plato in the original ancient Greek.

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

" Plato was of the opinion that it had been made into a wineskin.

Likewise we find mention of monographs of Theophrastus on the early Greek philosophers Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Democritus, which were made use of by Simplicius ; and also on Xenocrates, against the Academics, and a sketch of the political doctrine of Plato.

Plato is said to have introduced Sophron's works into Athens and to have made use of them in his dialogues ; according to the Suda, they were Plato's constant companions, and he even slept with them under his pillow.

There he continued his studies, made himself an expert on Plato and Plutarch, and became especially advanced in theology under the venerable GJ Planck.

Plato ’ s great work of the middle period, the Republic, is devoted to answering a challenge made by a sophist Thrasymachus, that conventional morality, particularly the ‘ virtue ’ of justice, actually prevents the strong man from achieving eudaimonia.

This project was made as a school project with 26 student of Plato College of Higher Education, Istanbul.

He also says that they possessed a portrait of Christ, a painting they claimed had been made by Pilate during his lifetime, which they honoured along with images of Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle " in the manner of the Gentiles ".

That work made him known by some as " the greatest nineteenth-century Plato scholar.

Another early variation involves a scenario in which Socrates and Plato exchange the parts of their carriages piece by piece until, finally, Socrates's carriage is made up of all the parts of Plato's original carriage and vice versa.

In developing this in Book X, Plato tells of Socrates ' metaphor of the three beds: one bed exists as an idea made by God ( the Platonic ideal ); one is made by the carpenter, in imitation of God's idea ; one is made by the artist in imitation of the carpenter's.

This also led him to inquire whether it could be possible to ground synthetic a priori knowledge for a study of metaphysics, because most of the principles of metaphysics from Plato through to Kant's immediate predecessors made assertions about the world or about God or about the soul that were not self-evident but which could not be derived from empirical observation ( B18-24 ).

Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning.

Plato discusses forms in the Republic, Book X, by using real things, such as a bed, for example, and calls each way a bed has been made, a " bedness ".

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

Eusebius ' Preparation for the Gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of Origen: Eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of Plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from Middle Platonists from Philo to the late 2nd century.

This arrogance, combined with ignorance, is the main cause which provoked Plato to his severe criticism of Hippias, as the sophist enjoyed a very extensive reputation, and thus had a large influence upon the education of the youths of the higher classes.

In his closing years Lord Redesdale edited and wrote extensive effusive Introductions of two of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's huge books: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century and Immanuel Kant-A Study and Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato, and Descartes, both two volumes each, translated into English by John Lees, M. A., D. Litt., and published by John Lane at the Bodley Head, London, in 1910 and 1914.

He was the author of an extensive literature described by Professor Blackie as the " great work of classical Gaelic prose .... written in a dialogue form, enriched by the dramatic grace of Plato and the shrewd humour of Lucian ", and played a major role in the creation of an educational infrastructure for the Highlands and Islands.

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.

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 ).

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.

However, the term pre-Sokratic was in use as early as George Grote's Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates in 1865.

The ASBC table in use today in North America, while it is derived from the original Plato table is for apparent specific gravity measurements at ( 20 ° C / 20 ° C ) on the IPTS-68 scale where the density of water is 0. 9982071 g / cm < sup > 3 </ sup >.

For Plato, Eros takes an almost transcendent manifestation when the subject seeks to go beyond itself and form a communion with the objectival other: " the true order of going ... to the things of love, is to use the beauties of earth as steps ... to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair actions, and from fair actions to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty ".

In Isocrates ' rhetorical use of a theme that he considers unworthy of serious treatment, the villainous king of Egypt named Busiris, a son of Poseidon and Anippe, daughter of the river-god Nilus, was the ancient founder of Egyptian civilization, with an imagined " model constitution " that Isocrates sets up as a parodic contrast to the Republic by Plato.

For some scholars, this is to credit Tyrtaeus with too much: his use of arete was not an advance on Homer's use of it but can still be interpreted as signifying " virtue " in the archaic sense of an individual's power to achieve something rather than as an anticipation of the classical sense of moral excellence, familiar to Plato and others.

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.

Actually, Empedocles did not use the word " element " ( στοιχεῖον = stoicheion ), which seems to appear afterwards in Plato, with different proportions or the root elements indestructible and unchangeable elementary things was born the numerous types of bodies in the world.

The use of definitions, postulates, and axioms dated back to Plato.

For Diotima, and for Plato generally, the most correct use of love of other human beings is to direct one's mind to love of divinity.

: Therefore for Spirits I am so farre from denying their existence, that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons have their Tutelary, and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church of Rome, but an old one of Pythagoras and Plato ; there is no heresay in it, and if not manifestly defined in Scripiture, yet is it an opinion of a good and wholesome use in the course and actions of a man's life, and would serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common philosophy affordeth no solution.

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.

The ASBC table in use today in North America, while it is derived from the original Plato table is for apparent specific gravity measurements at ( 20 ° C / 20 ° C ) on the IPTS-68 scale where the density of water is 0. 9982071 g · cm < sup >− 3 </ sup >.

There is also the possibility that Aristotle may have borrowed his use of the word " analysis " from his teacher Plato.

( This is evident in the use of the four Stoic ideals which are borrowed from Plato.

Plato does not talk of physical attraction as a necessary part of love, hence the use of the word platonic to mean, " without physical attraction.

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.

Many of the dialogues seem to use Socrates as a device for Plato's thought, and inconsistencies occasionally crop up between Plato and the other accounts of Socrates ; for instance, Plato has Socrates constantly denying that he would ever accept money for teaching, while Xenophon's Symposium clearly has Socrates stating that he is paid by students to teach wisdom and this is what he does for a living.