Plato: the world’s greatest philosopher?
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Plato's Relationship With Socrates
If Plato was born in 424 or 423, then he was growing up while Athens was enmeshed in the Peloponnesian War. He spent his early teenage years living in a place which must have been a very gloomy and depressing place to live. And so I don't like to infer aspects of his character from, as it were, any childhood traumas that he had," says philosopher.
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