- Socrates had a large impact on Plato, there is no doubt. But Socrates and Plato were different men, with different perspectives.
- Socrates and a Willingness to Question. What we know about Socrates is what his contemporaries – mainly his student Plato – wrote about him.
- Plato and the Socratic problem. The version of Socrates that most of us are familiar with is the Socrates that is found in the dialogues of his disciple, Plato.
- Through their meeting, Socrates and Plato's intellectual journeys converged, forever shaping Western philosophy and inspiring generations of thinkers to come.
- In Plato's version of the trial, Socrates mocks oratory as a deceitful rhetorical practice designed to lead jurors away from the truth.
- of Western philosophy finds its basis in the thoughts and teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- This relationship owes its presence to the fact that Socrates is regarded as the father of philosophy, while Plato was his student (Plato and Socrates).
- We will elaborate on Plato and Socrates, through the dialogues of Socrates brought to us by Plato, and through Plato’s written testimony.
- December 6, 2017. Much of Western philosophy finds its basis in the thoughts and teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- Plato is the main eye-witness source for the life of Socrates and we know from his account of Socrates’ trial that Plato was a student at the time.