One of the most important works of moral literature. The significance and value of the art of rhetoric. The concepts of power, virtue, and happiness. The right way of living, the purpose of man. The consequences of corruption. Eschatological myth with elements of Orphic tradition.

Plato was born in 427 BC, a scion of a prominent Athenian family. He received an excellent education and encountered the Greek philosophical currents. However, what definitively shaped his moral and spiritual being was Socrates, with his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher was the reason that the young Plato turned to philosophy, and the Socratic conceptual framework became the foundation for the later development of Platonic theory of Ideas.

Plato deeply interpreted Socrates as a man and teacher, and captured his personality in many of his works. He traveled to Egypt, Cyrene, and Greater Greece, where he unsuccessfully tried to apply his political principles to the organization of the Greek cities in Sicily.

In 387 BC, he founded the Academy in Athens, a famous center of philosophy and the Muses, which lasted almost ten centuries until the time of Justinian. Plato dedicated himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC). His works, which are all preserved, were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, with which Plato emerged, in addition to being a great philosopher, as a true poet.

His teaching derives from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Ionian philosophy, and of course from the Socratic discourse, ultimately forming, as a personal creation of Plato, a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy - moral, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and perhaps influenced thought throughout all time more than anyone else.