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2 days ago · The book ATLANTIS The Find of a Lifetime embarks on a 10,000-year journey that effectively reveals Atlantis’s submerged island and demonstrates how Plato’s 2400-year-old story corresponds to real history. Not only do the physical characteristics of the proposed location, along with the given chronology, match Plato’s description, but all ...
2 days ago · Plato believed that long before our bodies ever existed, our souls existed and inhabited heaven, where they became directly acquainted with the forms themselves. Real knowledge, to him, was knowledge of the forms. But knowledge of the forms cannot be gained through sensory experience because the forms are not in the physical world.
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19 hours ago · Read 204 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Protagoras is a minor but important dialogue of Plato. The main argument is between the el…
4 days ago · Socrates claims that learning is only the immortal soul’s recalling what it knew before it entered a human body. He demonstrates this in a well-known scene in which he helps an uneducated slave boy work out a geometrical problem, simply by asking questions (82b7 ff).
5 days ago · Plato is said to have died around 348 BC at the age of 80 or 81. Afterward he was said to have been buried within the Academy of Athens, the world's first university. The specific location was not known until new research about the papyrus has revealed that his burial site was in the garden of the Academy of Athens.
5 days ago · The Punic Wars were between Rome and Carthage. The Greco-Persian Wars involved those two sides. The Social War was between Rome and its Italian allies. 4. Much of what we know about Socrates was written by his pupil and friend, Plato. Plato wrote many dialogues that featured Socrates as the main speaker.
2 days ago · Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle. In the earliest Biblical painting, Greek philosophers admire the king’s wisdom. Read Theodore Feder’s article “Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle” as it originally appeared in Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2008. The article was first republished in Bible History Daily in October 2012.—Ed.
