Plato

Plato was born into a wealthy and politically powerful Athenian family. As a young man he became a follower of Socrates, and the trial and death of his teacher in 399 BC turned him away from a political career. He traveled, including to Sicily, where he tried without success to guide the rulers of Syracuse. Around 387 BC he founded the Academy in a grove outside Athens, a school where students studied mathematics, philosophy and politics; it lasted in some form for centuries, and Aristotle studied there for twenty years. Plato wrote dialogues, conversations usually led by Socrates, on justice, love, knowledge, the soul, beauty and the best kind of city. In the Republic he describes a just city ruled by philosopher-kings and tells the allegory of the cave, in which prisoners mistake shadows for reality. He taught that the changing things we see are copies of unchanging Forms, such as the Good itself. Nearly all his writings survive. He died in Athens around 348 BC.

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Faith: Faith not well documented beyond the Greek religion of his time; his philosophy later influenced Christian, Jewish and Islamic thought. Source: Wikipedia