Plato and His Key Concepts
We all know that Socrates was the teacher of Plato. And when Socrates died, many of his followers and friends ran away from Athens. He went to places like Sicily and Southern Italy. He made some political and scholarly friends there. Then, in 385 BCE, he came back to Athens and founded Academy , a place where he would give his lectures to his disciples. At present, whatever we know about Socrates is what we got from the writings of the historian, Xenophon, and the philosopher, Plato. Plato put his critical ideas in the mouth of Socrates in his dialogues. (Thirty-six dialogues are attributed to Plato. Republic is one of them.) Republic When we talk about literature and literary criticism, Plato's Republic inevitably pops up in our minds. Not only because he opinioned for kicking out poets from an ideal state, but also because he gave us some crucial concepts on which later critics would build their works. ...