Founder of the Academy
Plato
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
Student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, who founded the Academy in Athens and wrote dialogues on justice, love, knowledge and the soul.
Key work: Republic
“The beginning is the most important part of any work.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Behind changing appearances stand unchanging Forms.
Education turns the whole soul toward the light.
A just soul, like a just city, keeps each part in its place.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
Leaving the CaveThe TurningSorted WorkDrawing It OutDiscovered or Invented?Who Should Steer the Ship?
Quest with Plato above to start the climb and open these lessons.
