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"Plato's Contradictions?"
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"Plato's Contradictions?" Plato's biography is mainly drawn from the work of other ancient writers and a few of Plato's own letters. He was born in Athens around 428 BC to an aristocratic family with a long and esteemed history of political leadership in the state. Although it is not known to many Plato was originally named Aristocles, but was quickly nicknamed, "Platon," meaning "broad," by schoolmates impressed with his broad shoulders - "shoulders that would one day burden themselves with the foundational weight of Western thought." Plato's father, Ariston, descended from the early kings of Athens, and his mother, Perictone, from a distinguished pedigree that included 6th Century BC legislator Solon. To Plato's misfortune his father died when he was a young boy; his mother, unable to support Plato, his two older brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon, and his young sister Potone on her own, remarried to Pyrilampes, an associate of the...
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