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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Plato and Platonism |
 | | It is clear, however, that Plato holds the spiritual nature of the soul as against the materialistic Atomists, and that he believes the soul to have existed before its union with the body. | | | This conviction is apparent especially in the Platonic account of the origin of the universe, contained in the "Timaeus", although the details regarding the activity of the demiurgos and the created gods should not, perhaps, be taken seriously. | | | These impractical schemes reflect at once Plato's discontent with the demagogy then prevalent in Athens and in his personal predilection for the aristocratic form of government. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12159a.htm
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| | Plato - Crystalinks |
| | Plato conceived the Forms as arranged hierarchically; the supreme Form is the Form of the Good, which, like the sun in the myth of the cave, illuminates all the other Ideas. | | | With the aid of the sun, that person sees for the first time the real world and returns to the cave with the message that the only things they have seen heretofore are shadows and appearances and that the real world awaits them if they are willing to struggle free of their bonds. | | | Plato's influence has been extended into the 20th century by such thinkers as Alfred North Whitehead, who once paid him tribute by describing the history of philosophy as simply "a series of footnotes to Plato." |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/plato.html
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| | Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology |
| | Since this method, assuming that it is the same in both, appears to be deployed as part of the final stages of the pursuit of knowledge, there is reason to postpone consideration of the method until after consideration of perception and belief, i.e., the first two stages of Line. | | | According to the broad reading, Plato thinks that this cannot be done unless one appeals to one's prior, latent knowledge of the Forms under which one ranges perceptions. | | | It explores the question what is Justice over the course of ten books, with the aim of demonstrating that the best life for a human is the life devoted to virtue and knowledge, for such a life will result in happiness for the individual. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics
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| | Plato [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | It is most of all from Plato that we get the theory of Forms, according to which the world we know through the senses is only an imitation of the pure, eternal, and unchanging world of the Forms. | | | One of Plato's uncles (Charmides) was a member of the notorious "Thirty Tyrants," who overthrew the Athenian democracy in 404 B.C.E. Charmides' own uncle, Critias, was the leader of the Thirty. | | | The Oxford Classical Texts are the standard Greek texts of Plato's works, including all of the spuria and dubia except for the epigrams, the Greek texts of which may be found in Hermann Beckby (ed.), Anthologia Graeca (Munich: Heimeran, 1957). |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/plato.htm
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| | Plato |
| | Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul. | | | Perhaps there is no need for us to say more — to say, for example, that Plato himself agrees that this is how justice should be defined, or that Plato himself accepts the arguments that Socrates gives in support of this definition. | | | But Plato's dialogues do not try to create a fictional world for the purposes of telling a story, as many literary dramas do; nor do they invoke an earlier mythical realm, like the creations of the great Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato
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| | PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community |
| | With Notes and "term-talk" in place, it began to seem natural to use PLATO as a means of communication. | | | But for many people, PLATO's most enduring legacy is the online community spawned by its communication features. | | | Notes quickly became an indispensable part of the landscape. |
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http://www.thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
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| | Plato - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Plato |
| | Some other philosophers rejected this view for what can be termed moderate realism, which held that universals exist only in the mind of God, as patterns by which he creates particular things. | | | In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. | | | Plato was a superb writer, and his works are part of the world's great literature. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Plato
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| | PLATO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | PLATO Notes, introduced in 1973, was among the world's first online message boards, and years later became the direct progenitor of Lotus Notes. | | | Nevertheless he later claimed that Micro-PLATO was one of the reasons PLATO got off-track. | | | Although PLATO was designed for computer-based education, many consider its most enduring legacy to be the online community spawned by its communication features. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO
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| | Plato |
| | The written dialogues on which his enduring reputation rests also serve both of these aims. | | | Plato II: Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy of Art, Religion | | | The son of wealthy and influential Athenian parents, Plato began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/plat.htm
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| | Ion (Plato) - encyclopedia article about Ion (Plato). |
| | Plato would like to claim that there is something divine, non-objective, and non-reductive about poetry and the arts related to it (literary criticism) that he can only speak about in metaphor. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | PLATO, an apronym for Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation, was one of the first generalized Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the University of Illinois (U of I) and later taken over by Control Data (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Ion+(Plato)
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| | Emoticons and Smileys on PLATO in the 1970s |
| | Like so many things, PLATO was doing emoticons and smileys, online and onscreen, years earlier. | | | In fact, emoticons on PLATO were already an art form by 1976. | | | PLATO users began doing smiley characters probably as early as 1972 (when PLATO IV came out), but possibly even earlier on PLATO III (still to be determined... |
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http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html
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| | Journal of the International Plato Society |
| | It also sponsors the publication of scholarly books on Plato, in collaboration with Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin (http://www.academia-verlag.de/home.htm). | | | The journal has been established by the International Plato Society, founded in 1989 (www.platosociety.org). | | | It is open to all Plato scholars world-wide to read this journal, to make responses to the papers (which should be sent to the Editor and are subject to editorial moderation), and, in due course, to submit papers for inclusion in the journal. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~plato
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| | Plato summary |
| | Plato is one of the most important Greek philosophers who founded the Academy in Athens, an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences. | | | His works on philosophy, politics and mathematics were very influencial and laid the foundations for Euclid's systematic approach to mathematics. | | | Mark Harden's Artchive (The School of Athens by Raphael) |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
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| | Plato Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. | | | - We have 2 book reviews related to Plato. | | | - Read the works of Plato online at The Literature Page |
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Plato
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| | Welcome to PLATO Learning, Inc. |
| | Announcing the release of PLATO® Courses, whole semester courses that help schools meet diverse learning needs. | | | Meet industry experts and peer educators, gather new ideas, and join us for exciting onsite and web-based events. | | | As the leading provider of Personalized Instruction and Standards-Driven Assessment and Accountability, PLATO Learning helps sustain continuous academic improvement for K-adult learners. |
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http://www.plato.com
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