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Plato (what did he do (Founded the worlds first university - The Academy…
Plato
what did he do
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Most famous work - "Republic" he envisioned a civilisation governed not by lowly appetites but by the pure wisdom of a philosopher-king.
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Plato spent 12 years traveling in southern Italy, Sicily and Egypt, with other philosophers (including those who followed the mathematician Pythagoras) after Socrates's suicide
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At 40 years old Plato returned to Athens and founded his philosophical school in the grove of the Greek hero Academus, just outside the city walls.
Who
one of the most important/major Greek (Athenian) philosophers in Ancient Greece and his ideas were fundamental part of western thought
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why
was fascinated with the concept of their being an 'ultimate reality' and a reality which we everyday exsperience
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