# Plato

Plato was an Athenian philosopher active in the fourth century BCE, associated with Socrates and the Academy; exact chronology and ordering of dialogues remain debated. He developed philosophy through dramatic dialogues that investigate knowledge, justice, education, political order, love, rhetoric, metaphysics, and the philosophical life.

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