The dialogue on the soul by Plato. The last moments of Socrates and his serene demeanor just before his death. The discussion and arguments for the immortality of the soul.

Plato was born in 427 BC, the scion of a prominent Athenian family. He received an excellent education and was exposed to Greek philosophical movements. However, it was Socrates who fundamentally shaped his moral and spiritual essence, through his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher was the reason that the young Plato turned to philosophy, and the Socratic conception served as the foundation for the later Platonic theory of Ideas.

Plato interpreted Socrates deeply as a man and teacher, capturing his personality in many of his works. He traveled to Egypt, Cyrene, and Greater Greece, where he unsuccessfully attempted to implement his political principles in the organization of the Greek cities of Sicily.

In 387 BC, he founded the Academy in Athens, a famous center of philosophy and the Muses, which lasted nearly ten centuries, until the times of Justinian. Plato devoted himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC). His works, all of which have survived, were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, through which Plato emerged, besides being a leading philosopher, a true poet.

His teaching is rooted in the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Ionian philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and it ultimately takes shape, as Plato's personal creation, into a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy - ethical, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and has perhaps influenced thought more than any other throughout all time.