POL200Y1 Study Guide - Cephalus, Glaucon, Polemarchus
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Plato is traditionally thought to have been born in 428 b. c. and have died in 348. His father, ariston, was believed the last king of athens, his mother, prediction, was related to. Also plato had a sister, potone, whose son took over as head of the academy on. Plato was a stranger to athenian politics as her mother married to politician after his father"s death. I t would be completely natural that plato took over politics as he grew older, but in his seventh letters he explains why he refused to do so. The reason behind was arrest of socrates, as he refused to take part in politics. Thus plato believed that he had to praise t rue philosophy that it enables him to discern what is just. At the age of forty plato visited sicily in order to meet pythagorean philosophers. Afterwards in 368 bc plato was sent to dionysius 2 to teach him how to rule a state.
