Plato's Life & Work Flashcards
Plato was born in— and died in —
Born in 427
Died in 347
The sources that mentions Plato are _____ and ____.
Incomplete and unreliable
Plato was born to an ____ and ____ family
Aristocratic and distinguished
Plato’s early education included training in _____, _____, ______, and _______ .
Gymnastics, the arts, mathematics, and history.
Plato met Socrates around the ages of ____ and ____ .
Fifteen and twenty.
Most of what we know about _____ comes from Plato himself and few others who wrote about him.
Socrates
Plato’s family was involved in Athenian ____ .
Politics.
Plato gave up his plan for a ____ career and instead became a dedicated _____ of _____, pursuing a life as a _____.
Public, pupil, Socrates, philosopher.
Plato founded the _____, a center for advanced study that taught ____, ____, and ____ through the Socrates method of ____ and ____.
Academy, mathematics, logic, philosophy, questions, answers.
Plato’s ____ played an important role in the Academy’s instruction.
Dialogues.
Plato’s famous student, _____, arrived at the Academy in _____.
Aristotle, 367 BC.
Plato’s works are mainly in the form of ____.
Dialogues
Most scholars divide Plato’s work roughly into _____ periods.
Three
Most scholars divide Plato’s works roughly into three periods. The _________ period where he wrote works like _______, the _______ period where Plato wrote works like _______, and the ______ period which included several works like _______ which included a notorious attack on ______.
Early, the Apology of Socrates, middle, the Republic, late, Phaedrus, writing.
