PLATO

Who was plato?

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy
in Athens. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the
development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Along with his
teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the very
foundations of Western philosophy and science.
He born in Athens, Greek, 428/427 or 424/423 BC.
He also died in Athens, 348/347 BC (age c.80)
Theory of the state
The Republic is the biggest political work of Plato, which is the question of
justice; What is a just state and what is a fair individual.
The ideal state, according to Plato, is composed of three social classes. The
economic structure of the state lies in the establishment of traders.
Security, military, and political leadership is assumed by philosopher-kings.
In concordant way with his theory of the soul, Plato traditional Greek virtues
associated with the structure of social strata of the ideal state. Wisdom
characterizes the rulers, temperance is the virtue of the craftsman, the
value is the virtue of the military. Justice, fourth virtue, characterizes society
as a whole.
The State Fair is for that Plato in which each sector performs its own
function, without going into the activities of other social strata.
The location of a person in a social group, is determined by an educational
process that begins at birth and continues until that person has reached the
highest level of education compatible with their vocation and skills.
Those who complete the entire educational process become philosopherkings. Are those whose minds have been developed that are able to

understand the ideas and, therefore, to make the wisest decisions. The ideal
Plato educational system is structured to produce philosopher-kings.
It can be attributed to Plato initiating the current political thought of utopian
content; ie it based on the idea that it is possible to design a system of
government, state and society voluntarist traits emerged not in reality but in
the conception of an ideal thought - an ideology - and aim to get in practice.
In this sense Plato was chronologically the first of the ideologues.
Usually, the negative judgments are made about the political doctrine of
Plato is based on an anachronistic view, from its negation of the values of
democracy, and current political concepts that posit democracy in the
modern format - well different from that applied in classical Greece. But in
reality most reprehensible of that thought is precisely its political structure
voluntarist ideology; according to a model that is still in our time it is a
source of problems for companies.