Plato.

Asked him who Plato was, and he said, Plato who?

Plato, what

Hi, Plato.

Plato, that's right.

Plato? You in there?

You're my friend, Plato.

Where's your mother tonight, Plato?

Plato, what is a chickierun?

Don't you trust me, Plato?

How long have you known Plato?

Plato doesn't.... Turn out the lights!

That's Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche and Bill Clinton.

That's Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche and Bill Clinton.

Who? Plato, it's me. Look at me.

Now can I have the gun, Plato?

What if, Plato thought, ethics was like math?

I know a place. Plato told me before.

Can you tell me why you killed those puppies, Plato?

Some attribute this golden world knowledge to Plato, others to Pythagoras.

Is it Plato, is it Aristotle, is it Kant, is it Mill?

As Plato said, what space is to size, time is to value.

Plato is my friend, but the truth is worth more to me.

NEW YORK Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also famously gave us a still current definition of its opposite knowledge. For Plato, knowledge is justified true belief.

Plato in the cave with those very young boys. Sweeney Ooh...

And Plato, he had a lot of the same concerns that we did.

The point is PLATO was only 50 years ago, an instant in time.

In Magdalena it trained rural women heads of household in the municipalities of Piñón, Plato and Banco.

The fifth thing is that maybe, after 2,500 years, Plato is still having his way with us in his notion of perfect forms.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. In book I of The Republic, Plato made the observation that

I think of all the poetry that I've read about romantic love, what sums it up best is something that is said by Plato, over 2,000 years ago.

As a local newspaper reporter still in high school, I was sent over to the computer lab of the University of Illinois to interview the creators of something called PLATO.

Psychology tells a diminished story that leaves out our past moral advances and the hard argumentative work required to expand those advances in the future. Plato would reject this view.

I have learned from Wikipedia that, starting with that humble beginning, PLATO established forums, message boards, online testing, email, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing and multiple player games.

Before Darwin, philosophical speculation shaped our psychological understanding. But even great philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and others could only describe current mental events and behaviors they could not explain their causes.

DAVOS What would happen if the ancient Greek philosopher Plato partook in contemporary dialogues about the types of questions that he first posed, and that continue to vex us? In my view, he would have many new questions including about our increasingly psychological approach to philosophical discussion.

For example, though Plato opposed the enslavement of Greeks, he like every other ancient Greek condoned the enslavement of barbarians (non Greeks). Today, by contrast, even an emphatically non philosophical person say, Plato s media escort could easily explain why slavery is wrong A person is a person.

China s decision to execute the head of its drug regulatory agency has rekindled international debate about capital punishment. It is an age old question, one that harks back to Plato, who in his Laws saw the need to punish by death those who commit egregious crimes.

Plato held that moral progress is essentially an intellectual process, driven by reasoned arguments a stance that many of the most influential moral philosophers, from Baruch Spinoza and Immanuel Kant to John Rawls and Peter Singer, have supported. Yet many other philosophers have rejected the autocracy of reason in humans moral lives, agreeing with David Hume s assertion that reason, in itself, is perfectly inert.

Plato thought that three conditions must be met in order for us to know something the notion in question must actually be true we must believe it (because if we do not believe something that is true, we can hardly claim that we know it) and, most subtly, it must be justifiable there must be reasons why we believe the notion to be true.