

Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The so-called neoplatonism of philosophers such as Plotinus and Porphyry greatly influenced Christianity through Church Fathers such as Augustine.

Plato has also often been cited as one of the founders of Western religion and spirituality. He is widely considered a pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle. Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Dialectical Epimeleia: Platonic Care of the Soul and Philosophical.

The article will try to show, thus, which are the precise elements that may have made Socrates remember Gorgias after listening to the tragic poet.Ο Πλάτων (Αρχαία Αθήνα, 427 π.Χ. In this article we intend to track down in three complementary levels the diverse reasons why this recollection took place: (A) regarding the form of the speech, we will try to show that there is an equivalence in how both Gorgias in his Encomium to Helen and the character of Agathon in the Symposium construct their respective logoi (B) regarding the style of writing, we will see the frequent use in the poet's speech of the rhetoric resource of "saying things alike'' (isa legein) usually ascribed to Gorgias (C) finally, regarding the contents of both speeches we will try to show that many of the elements used by the sophist to praise the logos in his Encomium to Helen may be found, more or less, in Agathon's praise of Eros. One of these comments is that the speech brought Gorgias to his memory (198 c 2-5). After Agathon's speech in Plato's Symposium, Socrates takes a little time to make some comments about it. El Manjar de Talamanca, Talamanca de Jarama Picture: DETALLE PLATO - Check out Tripadvisor members 51 candid photos and videos of El Manjar de Talamanca.
