Plato
c. 427-347 BCE 80 years
c. 427-347 BCE 80 years
aka: Aristocles (original name)--"Plato" is a
name given to him later, meaning "broad, or
wide", theories ranging from a name given by
his wrestiling coach because he was big, to the
fact that either his forehead or his ideas were
broad.
name given to him later, meaning "broad, or
wide", theories ranging from a name given by
his wrestiling coach because he was big, to the
fact that either his forehead or his ideas were
broad.
Greek philosopher, student and recorder of
Socrates, teacher of Aristotle.
born Athens, Greece to a well-off family
founder of The Academy in Athens
Socrates, teacher of Aristotle.
born Athens, Greece to a well-off family
founder of The Academy in Athens
| Do you know that one of the greatest philosophers, Plato, thinking about his ultimate utopian republic, said that no poet should be allowed there? In his republic, in his ultimate state of society, poets should not be allowed. Why? – because he is afraid of poets. He says: Poets bring fantasies, poets bring dreams, poets bring confusion and mysticism, and we don't want any of it. We want a very clear-cut, logical, prosaic society. That society will be hypertense; everybody will be neurotic. In Plato's republic – if it ever happens...and there is every fear that it can happen – everybody will be a neurotic, and everybody will always be carrying his psychoanalyst with him. Wherever he moves, he will have to carry his psychoanalyst. That is already coming in the West... --Osho I Say Unto You, Vol. 2, ch. 3 |
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