Plato:The Philosopher King

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act

responsibly, while bad people will find a way around
the laws”
 Plato
• One of the world's best known and most widely
read and studied philosophers.

• Student of Socrates and the Teacher of Aristotle.

-Influenced by Heraclitus, Parmenides and the
Pythagoreans
Combating The Relativism of the Sophists
Sophists-Class of Itinerant teachers who
instructed young statesman in the arts of
rhetoric and debate for a fee.
• Plato considers the sophists to be one of
the primary enemies of virtue.
MORAL RELATIVISM- is the idea that there is
no universal or absolute set of moral
principles.
 THE THEORY OF FORMS
-represents plato attempt to cultivate our
capacity for abstract thought.

-The theory of forms differentiates the

abstract world of thought from the world of the
sense, where art and methodology operates.
 THE THEORY OF TRIPARTITE SOUL

-Found in PlatoS book The Republic

- Also called The Allegory Of the Charioteer.
• -Plato acknowledges the fact that we all experience inner conflict
from time to time, seeks not only to explain inner conflict but also
to present that the Rational part is superior.
Described the soul as divided into three parts:
RATIONAL
SPIRITED
APPETITIVE
EDUCATION FOR THE HEALTH OF THE
STATE
The Republic Law
The Guardians