The famous dialogue "On Justice," the blueprint for organizing the ideal community of law and education, the exposition of the political and ethical principles of the philosopher. Books III, IV. The character of the state as a community of law and education. Elements of its organization and identity. A parallel between the city and the soul.

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

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

Plato dedicated himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC). His works, all of which have been preserved, were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, through which Plato emerged, in addition to being a leading philosopher, as a true poet.

His teaching stems from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, Ionic philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and ultimately forms, as Plato's personal creation, a colossal philosophical system.

His philosophy - ethical, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and perhaps influenced the thought of all times more than anyone else.

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