Plato
Submitted by katiex34 on November 9, 2008
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Plato
Plato was born in Athens, Greece. It is thought that Plato, together with his mentor Socrates, and his student Aristotle, laid the foundations of western philosophy. Plato was an idealist, idealists believe that the external, material world is produced by the mind or ideas and that it cannot exist separately, and one of the most common preoccupations was that we can never have true knowledge of the world as it is always in a constant state of change. Heraclitus was another philosopher who thought this he said “you can never step in the same river twice.â€
The concept of forms refers to Plato’s belief that the material world as it seems to us is not the real world,...
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