Plato's teaching
In various dialogues Plato challenges the teaching of the sophists and their payment discourses full of useless rhetoric that is regularly resized with the dialectic and the Socratic irony, doing the same sense that knowledge is virtually free and accessible to all, even if it is requires a certain engagement and a good concentration for the emergence of the idea of truth by any argument. To let this valuable teaching and to implement its project of philosophy, Plato (427 - 347 BC) despite belonged to an important and wealthy family did risky journeys, was made captive and ransomed by his friend Anniceris of Cirenes, then was made new prisoner and also ran great danger of life in Syracuse (357 BC approximately) circumstance that led him to abandon Sicily and return to Athens to continue developing his philosophy, teaching and writing the famous dialogues until the death.
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Date: 26/06/2010
 article n°: 1307
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