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The 129 pages that link to Plato, each with the reason it gives.

• Substance dualismRelated: His arguments for the soul’s separability are an important antecedent, not Cartesian substance dualism.

• SophistsRelated: His dialogues are a major source for the hostile image of Sophists as teachers of persuasion.

• TranscendenceRelated: Plato's Forms are enduring examples of realities treated as more fundamental than changing sensory things.

• Trial of SocratesRelated: His dramatic accounts became the trial’s most influential literary record.

• Classical AthensRelated: His works preserve debates about politics and philosophy shaped by Athenian life.

• Diogenes LaërtiusCompared with: Plato's authored dialogues offer a distinct kind of evidence from Diogenes' compiled reports.

• Innate ideasRelated: His theory of recollection is an early account of knowledge not acquired through ordinary experience.

• Middle PlatonismNarrower topic: Middle Platonists treated Plato’s dialogues as authoritative sources for a coherent philosophical system.

• Plato's RepublicNarrower topic: The Republic is among his most influential works and expresses central themes of his philosophy.

• Platonic solidRelated: His dialogue Timaeus associated four solids with elements and the fifth with the cosmos.

• Porphyry of TyreNarrower topic: Porphyry interpreted Plato within the Platonic tradition that Neoplatonism renewed.

• UniversalsRelated: His Forms became the classical model for universals existing independently of particulars.

• Aristarchus of SamosRelated: The mathematical astronomy of Aristarchus belonged to debates in the intellectual world Plato helped shape.

• Beauty (aesthetics)Related: Plato treats beautiful things as imperfect participants in a higher, intelligible Form of Beauty.

• Classical GreeceRelated: His works preserve debates and ideas formed in the classical Greek world.

• Greek philosophyBroader topic: His Academy and dialogues made philosophical argument a durable form of inquiry.

• NativismRelated: His theory of recollection is an early influential account of knowledge not derived from ordinary experience.

• Peripatetic schoolRelated: His Academy provided Aristotle’s principal early institutional setting.

• ProclusRelated: Proclus treated Plato’s dialogues as a unified body of philosophical teaching.

• QuadriviumRelated: His dialogues linked mathematical study with knowledge of an intelligible order.

• Western philosophyBroader topic: His dialogues set enduring terms for debates about forms, knowledge, and the ideal state.

• AtlantisNarrower topic: His writings are the only known ancient source for Atlantis.

• Classical theismRelated: Platonic ideas about ultimate reality influenced later accounts of divine transcendence.

• Lucian of SamosataRelated: Lucian borrowed the dialogue form associated with Plato while redirecting it toward comedy.

• Soul (spirituality)Related: Plato argued that the soul is distinct from the body and can survive its death.

• Academic skepticismNarrower topic: His school became the institution in which Academic skepticism developed.

• Aristotelian ethicsRelated: Aristotle’s ethical theory develops in sustained conversation with his former teacher’s ideas.

• Hans-Georg GadamerRelated: Gadamer’s lifelong interpretation of Plato informed his account of dialogue and philosophical questioning.

• Icosahedral symmetryRelated: The icosahedron appears in the Platonic account of the elements and regular solids.

• IsocratesCompared with: Plato and Isocrates offered competing accounts of education, philosophy, and civic expertise.

• NousRelated: His Forms provide the chief intelligible realities later placed within Nous.

• Thirty TyrantsRelated: The oligarchic violence associated with Critias informs the political context of his work.

• AcademyRelated: His teaching and institutional choices shaped the school’s identity.

• Allegory of the CaveRelated: Plato presents the cave as part of Socrates’ argument in the Republic.

• AnaxagorasRelated: His dialogue Phaedo recounts Socrates’ disappointment that Anaxagoras did not consistently use Mind as an explanatory cause.

• Eleatic schoolRelated: His dialogue Parmenides stages a searching examination of Eleatic unity and its consequences.

• MetempsychosisRelated: Plato gave metempsychosis a prominent philosophical treatment in myths of postmortem judgment and rebirth.

• PhilosophyBroader topic: His works shaped foundational debates across many branches of philosophy.

• Political theoryRelated: The Republic presents an early systematic inquiry into justice and the ideal political community.

• ApuleiusRelated: Apuleius’s philosophical identity was shaped by his interpretation of Plato.

• AristoxenusRelated: Aristoxenus studied in the Academy before turning toward Aristotle’s school.

• Dionysius I of SyracuseRelated: Plato's visits to Syracuse became entangled with the politics of Dionysius's court and heirs.

• History of philosophyBroader topic: His dialogues became a lasting source of problems and methods in later philosophical traditions.

• Iris MurdochRelated: Murdoch drew on Plato's idea that moral life involves turning toward a reality beyond the self.

• MenaechmusRelated: A later anecdote connects Menaechmus’s geometric work with Plato’s disapproval of mechanical solutions.

• Michael PsellosNarrower topic: Psellos studied Plato closely and helped renew interest in Platonic philosophy in Byzantium.

• Open societyRelated: Popper controversially read Plato’s political ideal as a precursor to closed social orders.

• ProtagorasRelated: Plato’s dialogue Protagoras stages debates about the sophist’s teachings and the nature of virtue.

• Luce IrigarayRelated: Irigaray's reading of Plato's cave allegory uncovers the gendered imagery beneath its account of knowledge.

• Regular dodecahedronRelated: The dodecahedron became one of the five solids discussed in the Platonic tradition.