Plato,_Understanding_His_Forms.

Plato, Understanding His Forms. As a young man Plato had political ambitions, but he became disillusioned by the political leadership in Athens. He eventually became a disciple of Socrates, accepting his basic philosophy and dialectical style of debate, which was the pursuit of truth through questions, answers, and additional questions. The foundation of Plato’s philosophical perspective is based solely on his perspectives as seen through his Theory of Forms. This theory is very complex and a thorough understanding of it is required to comprehend Plato’s philosophies. Shockingly, Aristotle, a student of Plato, philosophized theory’s that are stunningly contradictory to his mentor’s. Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens. His father, Ariston, was believed to have descended from the early kings of Athens. Perictione, his mother, was distantly related to the 6th- century BC lawmaker Solon. During Plato’s youth his father passed away. Soon thereafter his mother remarried to Pyrilampes, who was an associate of the statesman Pericles. Plato witnessed the death of Socrates at the hands of the Athenian democracy in 399 BC. Perhaps fearing for his own safety, he left Athens temporarily and traveled to Italy, Sicily, and Egypt. The most prodominent student Socrates plato, aristotle, knowledge, theory, logic, forms, plato’s, philosophy, through, socrates, philosophical, thought, real, particular, beauty, based, athens, reality, plato's, one, must, life, eternal, dialogues, about, world, rather, physical, object, ideas, academy, universal, understand, time, student