In Philosophy there were many philosophers that made a difference in society nothing more than Plato. Plato was a public figure to society and had a major contribution to our society and medieval philosophy, through his ideas and works. Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture through Plato definition of forms and his contribution to society and the virtuous life
Plato had a major impact on the philosophical foundation of Western Culture Philosophy through Plato's definition of forms and his contribution to society and his discovery of the virtuous life. Plato's life begins around the year 428 BCE. He was borned into Athenian household who was rich and strong connections to political sections of Solon and Pisistratus. Plato's parents were Ariston and Perictone, his older brothers were Adeimantus and Glaucon, and his younger sister was Potone. Plato's parents saw the future of Plato as dealing with politics because they wanted to keep it within the heritage. But that all changed when the war of Peloponnesian War which begin a couple years before Plato was born and continue well after he was twenty, this entitled lead to decline of the Athenian Empire. The war was followed by a rabid conservative religious movement that led to the execution of Plato's mentor, Socrates. Together these events forever altered the course of Plato's life. While as a young boy Plato engaged in many forms of poetry, only later that turn into philosophy. There evidence that Plato sometime during his youth he became acquainted with doctrines of Cratylus, a student of Heraclitus, who, along with other Pre-Socratic thinkers such as Pythagoras and Parmenides, provided Plato with the foundations of his metaphysics and epistemology ...