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--- layout: post title: "The Academy" category: Plato color: c1 tags: philosopy bio image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Anselm_Feuerbach_-_Das_Gastmahl._Nach_Platon_%28zweite_Fassung%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Anselm_Feuerbach_-_Das_Gastmahl._Nach_Platon_%28zweite_Fassung%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" source: "Columbia University Press" source_url: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/lithum/wong/plato.html --- Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived for a time at the Syracuse court. Founded the Academy (c.387<sub>B.C.</sub>) in Athens, the most influential and important learning instituion where he taught until his death in 347<sub>B.C.</sub>. A pupil and friend of Socrates, and taught one of the greatest philosopher, Aristotle. <!--more--> Plato produced 35 dialogues and 13 letters including: - Early (Socratic dialogues): - The Apology - Meno - Gorgias - Middle dialogues: - The Republic - Phaedo - Symposium - Timaeus - Later dialogues: - The Laws - Parmenides In his magnum opus, <cite>The Republic</cite> Plato argues for the philosopher-king as best kind of ruler; only a philosopher "understands the harmony of all parts of the universe with the Idea of the Good," and therefore, "is capable of ruling the just state." > Virtue consists in the harmony of the human soul with the universe of Ideas, which assure order, intelligence, and pattern to a world in constant flux. Supreme among them is the Idea of the Good, analogous to the sun in the physical world.
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