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Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
- Child of Ariston of Athens and Perictione
- Dated the 420s BCE – the 340s BCE
Overview
4th-century BCE Greek philosopherWikidata record description. Read Plato in the Wikipedia reader.
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One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
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Family 6
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 4
Plato 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher Taught 21
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Aristotle Greek philosopher -
Theophrastus Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC) - Coriscus of Scepsis ↗ ancient Greek philosopher
- Axiothea of Phlius ↗
- Chaeron of Pellene ↗
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- Demetrios of Amphipolis ↗
- Erastus of Scepsis ↗
- Euaeon of Lampsacus ↗
- Eudoxus of Cnidus ↗
- Euphraeus ↗
- Heraclides of Aenus ↗
- Heraclides Ponticus ↗
- Hestiaeus of Perinthus ↗
- Lastheneia of Mantinea ↗
- Leon of Byzantium ↗
- Philippus of Opus ↗
- Python of Aenus ↗
- Speusippus ↗
- Theodectes ↗
- Timolaus of Cyzicus ↗
- Xenocrates ↗
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Documented influence 30
- was influenced by Aristophanes
- was influenced by Heraclitus Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
- was influenced by Hesiod ancient Greek poet of the archaic period
- was influenced by Homer reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- was influenced by Orphism set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world
- was influenced by Parmenides late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
- was influenced by Protagoras
- was influenced by Pythagoras Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
- was influenced by Socrates 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
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- influenced Alain Badiou French writer and philosopher
- influenced Aristotle Greek philosopher
- influenced Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788-1860)
- influenced Augustine of Hippo Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
- influenced Averroes Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
- influenced Benedictus de Spinoza Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
- influenced Boethius Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)
- influenced C. S. Lewis British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
- influenced Farabi 10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
- influenced Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling German philosopher (1775–1854)
- influenced Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
- influenced Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
- influenced Hannah Arendt German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
- influenced Henri Bergson French philosopher (1859–1941)
- influenced Hermann Cohen German philosopher (1842–1918)
- influenced Leo Tolstoy Russian author (1828–1910)
- influenced Proclus 5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
- influenced René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
- influenced Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
- influenced Thomas Hobbes English philosopher (1588–1679)
- influenced Vladimir Solovyov Russian philosopher (1853-1900)
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