06/03/15 Plato

Cyber day again. Today we have to choose one person (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) to describe his life and his approach to philosophy, when he lived and what writings he is known for. 

• Plato was a philosopher , as well as mathematician in Classical Greece from about 427 BC to 347 BC. Plato and His teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle are called the three great Greek philosophers. His lasting themes include Platonic love is talking about Spirit of love. This kinds of love was determined to and opposite way to sex. Platonic love's value is about "The Spiritual Communication". Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and math. One of his famous dialogues is called "Republic". A story is talking about a lots of prisoners is tied up in a cave, they cannot move and only face to the white wall, and the exit of the cave is behind them. There is a fire burning and they can only saw the shadow of the white wall. Because of they cannot see anything else so they think that the shadow is the real things. Finally, a person get rid of the yoke, and escape from the cave, when he first time see the real things, he returned to the cave and tell the other prisoners the shadow is unreal. But for the other prisoners, he is stupid, they think in addition to the shadow on the wall, there is nothing else in the world. The story told us the real things is out of the cave, but the senses we can only feel is the shadow on the white wall. Plato likened to the sun of justice and truth, to emphasize that we have seen the sun is in the form of the sun, rather than substance.