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[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art... the first consists in seein… - Plato
" "[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art...
the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject of any instruction we wish to give...
[the second], in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher might do...
phaedrus, i myself am a lover of these divisions and collections, so that i may be able to think and to speak.
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About Plato
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Πλάτων
Alternative Names:
Plátōn
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Platon
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Aristocles
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Αριστοκλής
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
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