Plato (400BC)

what did plato contribute
- Mathematics is knowledge created by God
- People have innate knowledge
- Utopian Society determined by God
- Natavistic: assumed hereditary basis for characteristics & intelligence
Believed 3 Dimensions to World
- Ideal-real-underlying truth
- Material- senses-feel pain & pleasure
- Psychological- real truth through material world
Believed in Triarchic Soul
- Rational Soul-Head & Reason-Philosophers, Educators
- Affective Soul-Chest-Courage, Power- Warriors
- Desirous Soul-Stomach-Needs, Desires-Craftsmen, Peasants, Slaves

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Plato (400BC)

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Idealism: Soul & Body as separate

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2012-02-24T01:17:29Z

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