Dialogue focusing on concepts of politics. Defining the essence of the political. The relationship between the politician and the philosopher. The example of the art of weaving. The myth of cosmic periods. Reference to the incorrect governments.
Plato was born in 427 BC, from a prominent Athenian family. He received an excellent education and was familiar with Greek philosophical movements. However, what fundamentally shaped his moral and spiritual substance was Socrates, through his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher prompted the young Plato to turn to philosophy, and the Socratic conceptualization became the basis for the later Platonic theory of Ideas.
Plato profoundly interpreted Socrates as a man and teacher, capturing his personality in many of his works. He traveled to Egypt, Cyrene, and Greater Greece, where he unsuccessfully tried to apply his political principles in organizing 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, up to the times of Justinian. Plato devoted himself until his death (348 BC) to teaching and writing. His works, all preserved, were categorized by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, through which Plato emerged, besides being a leading philosopher, as a true poet.
His teaching derives from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagorean and Ionian philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and ultimately shapes, as a personal creation of Plato, into a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy - ethical, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and has perhaps influenced thought throughout all eras more than anyone else's.
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