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This 10 page paper looks at the influence that Plato has had on later philosophies and philosophers. The paper looks at the general influences and then considers this with specific examples such as Aristotle and Hobbes. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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teacher of Aristotle and Euclid, his influence is both important and notable with many of his works and ideas adding to the understanding of philosophy and philosophers. Plato was important
in the way he fixed and developed an idea and giving the subject definition of what philosophy was and then within this formulating a number of wide ranging important questions
regarding ethical and metaphysical issues. His contributions are seen in science and mathematics as well as philosophy, with the mathematical and scientific contribution having a strong basis in his philosophical
developments. The views of Plato can be difficult to determine, his working is not presented as a treaties, but instead as a set of different dialogues. The dialogues make
contribution to areas such as art, dance, music, drama and architecture, but the topics discussed include a wide range of issues. Plato is also a developer of the idea of
realism, and the role of the human mind. The aspect of Form and the development of metaphysical issues is seen as important, in his work Plato rejected the idea of
the changeable world as perceived though the senses and adopted a model of constant true ideas. As the founder of the academy the first university of its type, he
was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and methods which included the need for proof and the recognition of the need to give clear
and accurate definitions and hypothesises when undertaken any investigation. The use of the mathematics may be seen as a good training for the mind and is seen to form the
foundation on which Euclid built his systematic approach to mathematics and the work of other such as Archytas and Aristotle. With a university that survived for 900 years, being closed
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