Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. His writings explored justice, beauty and equality, and also contained discussions in aesthetics, political philosophy, theology, cosmology, epistemology and the philosophy of language. Plato founded the Academy in Athens, one of the first institutions of higher learning in the Western world.
Ignorant and incompetent governors can be and have been disasters for both citizens and their states.
Plato Philosopher and Writer
Born 428 BCE – Died 348 BCE
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”