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Plato's number

Victor Cousin inserted a note that it has to be skipped in his French translation of Plato's works.


Akadimias Street

Akadimias Street (Greek: Οδός Ακαδημίας) (named after Plato's school of philosophy) is a major street in Athens that runs parallel to Panepistimiou Street from Vassilissis Sofias Avenue to Kanningos Square in the area of Exarcheia.

Analogy of the Cave

Evolutionary biologist Jeremy Griffith's best-selling book "A Species In Denial" includes the chapter Deciphering Plato’s Cave Analogy.

Artistic inspiration

The Greco-Latin doctrine of the divine origin of poetry was available to medieval authors through the writings of Horace (on Orpheus) and others, but it was the Latin translations and commentaries by the neo-platonic author Marsilio Ficino of Plato's dialogues Ion and (especially) Phaedrus at the end of the 15th century that led to a significant return of the conception of furor poeticus.

Basileia

The royal palace, or citadel, of Atlantis, as described by the Greek philosopher Plato in the Critias

Bjorn Thomassen

Via participation in the yearly held “Socrates Symposium” in Florence, Thomassen has also taken an interest in Plato's philosophy.

Cathedral of the Annunciation

The door wings are decorated with figures of ancient poets and philosophers (including Diogenes, Euripides, Plato and Homer).

Cultural schema theory

The idea of schemas existing as ideal types in the mind dates back all the way back to Plato (see also Schema and Schema (psychology)) .

Daredevils of Sassoun

The written literature of Armenia goes back to fifth century of our era, its Golden Age, when the Bible was translated into the vernacular from the original Greek and Syriac texts, Plato and Aristotle were studied in Armenian schools, and many original works of great interest to the modern specialist were produced by native historians, philosophers and poets.

Dialogue

Authors who have recently employed it include George Santayana, in his eminent Dialogues in Limbo (1926, 2nd ed. 1948; this work also includes such historical figures as Alcibiades, Aristippus, Avicenna, Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers), and Iris Murdoch, who included not only Socrates and Alcibiades as interlocutors in her work Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986), but featured a young Plato himself as well.

Divine Madness

Theia mania, unusual behavior attributed to intervention of a god in Plato's philosophy

Duchy of Athens

Of Burgundian origin, the dukes of the petty lordly family from La Roche renewed the ancient city of Plato and Aristotle as a courtly European capital of chivalry.

Enrico Salvatori

In London he exhibited the following works: Diana the Hunter; Pastor fido; Plato; Narcisus; Homer; and Berenice, and obtained a diploma of second class with a silver medal.

Eugénie Söderberg

In 1940 Eugenie Söderberg came to the USA as a reporter for Scandinavian newspapers and in the following year she married the well-known art dealer and Plato scholar Hugo Perls.

Fictional city

A fictional city refers to a town, city or village that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life, or refers to a settlement that people believe exist without definitive proof, such as Plato's account of Atlantis which some believed was fiction while others believed it existed.

Flood myth

In Plato's Timaeus, Timaeus says that because the Bronze race of Humans had been making wars constantly Zeus got angered and decided to punish humanity by a flood.

Foundations of mathematics

The discrepancy between rationals and reals was finally resolved by Eudoxus of Cnidus, a student of Plato, who reduced the comparison of irrational ratios to comparisons of multiples (rational ratios), thus anticipating Richard Dedekind's definition of real numbers.

From Atlantis to the Sphinx

Using The Sphinx as his starting point, Wilson explores the ramifications of an alternate time-line for the development of mankind, arguing that an advanced civilisation or civilisations existed in traditionally pre-historic times, in particular, the fabled Atlantis mentioned by Greek philosopher Plato in his work Timaeus.

Henri Trianon

Henri Trianon (born 11 July 1811 in Paris – died 17 October 1896 ibid) was a French critic, librettist and translator of works by Homer and Plato, and operas by Weber and Mozart into French.

Herbert Ratner

A re-examination of the great minds of the past – Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas – was taking place.

Hermetica

Since Plato's Timaeus dwelt upon the great antiquity of the Egyptian teachings upon which the philosopher purported to draw, scholars were willing to accept that these texts were the sources of Greek ideas.

Herodicus

According to Plato, Herodicus recommended that his patients walk from Athens to Megara, a distance of a little more than 20 miles.

Historicism

In The Open Society and Its Enemies, Popper attacks "historicism" and its proponents, among whom (as well as Hegel) he identifies and singles out Plato and Marx — calling them all "enemies of the open society".

Iain Hamilton Grant

Grant views Plato and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling as his major allies among classic philosophical figures, and generally opposes both Aristotle and Kant for what he sees as their tendency to reduce reality to its expressibility for humans.

Ilisos

During antiquity, it ran outside the defensive walls of Athens: Plato wrote in Critias that the river was one of the borders of the ancient walls.

John Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

John Russon

Russon has supervised the dissertations of many current professors of philosophy across North America on topics in Plato, Aristotle, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, John Dewey and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Kuniyoshi Obara

Influenced by Plato, Erasmus and Swiss education reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, this philosophy promoted a balanced and individualized approach to the development of the student in the six aspects of truth (veritas; academic ideals), goodness (bonum; moral education), beauty (pulchritudo; art education), holiness (sanctitas; religious education), health (sanitas; physical education) and wealth (copia; vocational education).

Leo the Mathematician

His library can at least partially be reconstructed: Archimedes, Euclid, Plato, Paul of Alexandria, Theon of Alexandria, Proclus, Porphyry, Apollonius of Perga, the lost Mechanics of Quirinus and Marcellus, and possibly Thucydides.

Leroy Searle

Specifically, Searle explores, and has published works on, philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kant, and Charles Sanders Peirce.

Macrina the Younger

Gregory of Nyssa composed a "Dialogue on the Soul and Resurrection" (peri psyches kai anastaseos), entitled ta Makrinia (P.G. XLVI, 12 sq.), to commemorate Macrina, in which Gregory purports to describe the conversation he had with Macrina on her deathbed, in a literary form modelled on Plato's Phaedo.

Making Social Science Matter

In terms of the philosophy and history of science, Flyvbjerg takes his cue from Aristotle rather than from Socrates and Plato.

Moor End Academy

The Academy's house system includes houses named after historical figures, including Gertrude B. Elion, Mahatma Gandhi, and Plato.

Napięcie Theatre

The Napięcie Theatre work mainly with their own texts (“Salon Lenistwa”/”Showroom of Indolence” or “Lewa Strona, Prawa Strona”/”Left Side, Right Side”) but they also work with other author’s pieces (“Przewodnik dla bezdomnych”/”A Short Guide for Homeless People” is based on Arthur Rimbaud's and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's works; their other plays are inspired by Plato and Andrzej Sosnowski).

Phaidon

Phaedo, one of Plato's dialogues named after Phaedo of Elis who appears in it

Philippa Foot

It may be found in her continuing discussion of the Platonic immoralists, Callicles and Thrasymachus, and of Nietzsche.

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes is a book that explains basic philosophical concepts through classic jokes.

Poitier Meets Plato

The actor Sidney Poitier recites excerpts from Plato's works over music composed and conducted by Fred Katz.

Radical skepticism

The Ancient Greek philosophers Plato, Cratylus and Pyrrho as well as Roman philosopher Sextus Empiricus are among those who expounded theories of radical skepticism.

Regress argument

The argument can be seen as a response to the suggestion in Plato's Theaetetus that knowledge is justified true belief.

Robert O. Ragland

Ragland created the scores for films such as Seven Alone, Abby, Project: Kill, Return to Macon County, Sharks' Treasure, Grizzly, Moon in Scorpio,Mansion of the Doomed, Q- The Winged Serpent, 10 To Midnight, The Fear, Plato's Run, and Crime and Punishment.

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

S number

Meter Point Administration Number, often referred to as Supply Number or S-Number, a 21-digit number used in Great Britain to uniquely identify electricity supply points;

Small College

The course of the Small College mainly consists of the so-called classics; Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Arendt, Dostoyevsky, and so forth.

The Athenian Murders

Their investigation takes them all over Athens, from mystery cult worship services to a symposium hosted by Plato.

The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis

It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements of the myth told by Plato with the earlier Greek myth concerning the survival of a universal flood and restoration of the human race by Deucalion.

The Plot to Save Socrates

Together with various fictional characters, the story also involves Plato, and of course Socrates - who only comes onstage in the last part - as well as the 19th Century publisher William Henry Appleton.

Waynesville, Missouri

Military personnel assigned to training areas on the south end of the post sometimes choose to live in the unincorporated areas of Big Piney and Pulaski County, or the northern Texas County communities of Plato and Roby.

William Sanders Scarborough

However, in 1892, Scarborough gave a lecture on Plato at the University of Virginia with pictures of Jefferson Davis and other confederate leaders on the walls and no other African Americans allowed into the room except as servants.


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