ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Plato was a philosopher during the 5th century BCE. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plato is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is left to his student Plato, using the Socratic method as a starting point and ranging over subjects that Socrates neglected, to offer positive answers to these questions.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Academy he founded was by some accounts the world’s first university and in it he trained his greatest student, the equally influential philosopher Aristotle. Plato’s recurring fascination was the distinction between ideal forms and everyday experience, and how it played out both for individuals and for societies.