Plato

Plato (or Platae) (Inglis pronunciation: /ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad"; 427/428 BC – 347/348 BC), wis a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer o philosophical dialogues, an foonder o the Academy in Athens, the first institution o heicher learnin in the Wastren warld. Alang wi his mentor, Socrates, an his student, Aristotle, Plato helped tae lay the foondations o Wastren philosophy an science. Plato wis oreeginally a student o Socrates, an wis as muckle influenced bi his thinkin as bi his apparently unjuist execution.

Plato
Roman copy o a portrait bust bi Silanion for the Academia in Athens (c. 370 BC)
Born	428/427 or 424/423 BC Athens, Greece
Dee'd	348/347 BC (age c. 80) Athens, Greece
Notable wirk(s)	Apology Phaedo Symposium Republic
Era	Auncient philosophy
Region	Wastren philosophy
Schuil	Platonism
Main interests	Rhetoric, airt, leeteratur, epistemology, juistice, virtue, politics, eddication, faimily, militarism, freendship, luve
Notable ideas	Theory o Forms, Platonic idealism, philosopher king, Platonic realism, Plato's tripartite theory o saul, hyperuranion, metaxy, khôra, methexis, theia mania, agathos kai sophos, poiesis, philotimon
Influences Socrates, Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Aesop, Protagoras, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Orphism
Influenced Maist o Western philosophy that cam efter his warks

Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirtie-sax dialogues an thirteen letters hae been ascribed tae him. Plato's writins hae been published in several fashions; this haes led tae several conventions regardin the namin an referencin o Plato's texts.

Plato's dialogues hae been uised tae teach a range o subjects, includin philosophy, logic, rhetoric an mathematics.