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Plato
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Athenian philosophical writer whose dialogues ask readers to examine arguments and speakers. Supplied archive attributions remain distinct from the checked reading edition.
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Plato wrote philosophical discussions that give questions a setting and different speakers. Socrates often leads an exchange, but the literary speaker should not simply be identified with Plato or treated as a transcript of the historical Socrates. A sentence gains meaning from the objection, example or response around it. The reference gives an uncertain ancient birth year; this profile keeps the archive’s exact life dates unset.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plato ↗ Introduction and sections 3–5: dialogue, speakers, Socrates and indirectness
The linked Republic is Benjamin Jowett’s English translation. Book II considers education and the importance of beginnings; Book V examines opinion in relation to knowledge and ignorance. Follow a complete exchange and ask who proposes the claim and how it is tested. These passages offer context for the selected themes without making a supplied shortened quotation an authenticated extract from this edition.
Project Gutenberg — The Republic ↗ PG1497: dialogue text, Book II on education; Book V on opinion and knowledge
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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plato ↗
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- Project Gutenberg — The Republic ↗
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