Aristocle who was him ?

Many do not know the true name of one of more important geniuses of the humanity and they do not realize of how many times every day recur to an ideal of the Plato philosopher (Athens 428 - 347 B.C.), in this way called from the gym teacher for his athletic shoulders. Was dedicated initially to the public life, but noticed of the falsity and corruption of the politicians, not endured it; so decided to study philosophy, in the attempt to improve the State and to render it more just. Was disciple of the sophists and of Socrates, so could develop the marvelous doctrine of the Ideas. To cause of the wars, of the dead of Socrates (victim of a murder with the cicuta) and the breakdown of the democracy, Plato was forced to leave Athens and to go from Euclides to Megara, then in Egypt and finally to Siracuse in Italy, to the court of Dionigi, trying to put in practical his philosophical ideals; without to succeed (it was made also enslaved). Returned to Athens founded the Academy, the famous school to which he was dedicated until to the dead (but he returned also in vain to Siracuse) and he wrote brilliant works like: "The Republic, the Timeo, the Phaedrus" and now is considered one of the prophets of the Christianity, as an example the story of the "Phaedo" discuss of souls that after the dead are judged in a underground world, the evil men ends for ever in the Tartar, the just ones catches up a species of Paradise, the others instead, must before purify in the Acherusia lake.

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