Bust of Plato/Head Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek Copenhagen, 24.2 cm high, 10.7 cm wide, 1 kg
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Plato, original depiction, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek Copenhagen
Albumen print of the photo collection aeria.phil.uni-erlangen
Alongside his teacher Socrates, Plato was one of the most important philosophers of antiquity.
The thinker Plato, who came from a noble family, led Socrates' questioning dialogue to the dialectical discussion of the knowledge of goodness and virtue, to the Ideas.
Plato describes the path to realising the Ideas in the Allegory of the Cave.
Plato (427 - 347 BC) exerted an enormous influence on the development of philosophy. Right up to the present day, all objective idealism has, in one form or another, drawn on Platonic thought motifs.
Even the rationalist systems of thought of R. Descartes, Baruch de Spinoza and G. W. Leibniz were influenced by Plato's ideas.
Plato's works, 22 treatises, have all been preserved. Probably the most important are ‘Apology’, ‘Kriton’ and ‘Phaidon’, in which he quotes his teacher Socrates, as well as ‘Symposion’, ‘Protagoras’, ‘Politeia’, ‘Parmenides’ and ‘Nomoi’.
One of Plato's most famous students was the later educator and teacher of Alexander the Great, the naturalist and philosopher Aristotle, founder of the Peripatetic school.
Even today, we still refer to Platonic love as a non-sensual, idealised bond of love, in the philosophical sense of love in Plato's metaphysical interpretation (in his work ‘Symposium’).
Two quotes from Plato: ‘If you want to heal the body, you must first heal the soul.’
‘Learn to listen, and you will also benefit from those who only talk rubbish.’
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday, November 26, 2024.