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between Plato's teacher Socrates and two young Athenians, Philebus and Protarchus. The main topic is the ethical evaluation of pleasure. Philebus and Protarchus

Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; born c. 428–423 BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is

is a philosophical theory credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. A major concept in metaphysics, the theory suggests that the physical world

edition of the works of Plato, where he included the Symposium in his third tetralogy along with the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the Phaedrus. He also

Greek: Τίμαιος, romanized: Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus

pleasure (1.4.17). Plato describes Socrates making the same argument in his Philebus 28d, using the same words nous and phronēsis. Plato used the word nous

in order to rule the citizenry properly. Greek text at Perseus Plato: Statesman, Philebus, Ion. Greek with translation by Harold N. Fowler and W. R. M.

early as the Delphic maxim "nothing in excess", which was discussed in Plato's Philebus. Aristotle analyzed the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics Book

tetralogy Cratylus, Theatetus, Sophist, Statesman 3rd tetralogy Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus 4th tetralogy Alcibiades I, Alcibiades II, Hipparchus

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