Plato's Academy
Ancient Athenian school
Plato's Academy was a school of philosophy founded by Plato in Athens around 387 BCE, often considered the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
It operated for nearly 300 years, training philosophers including Aristotle.
Today the term evokes rigorous intellectual inquiry and the origins of systematic philosophical education: a modern Plato's Academy for young thinkers.
- philosopher kingWisdom-led ruler ideal
- AthensGreece's capital city
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- AristotleGreek founder of formal logic
- modern universitiesCurrent institutions of learning
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- ancient GreeceAthens, Sparta, Zeus, Parthenon, Acropolis
- academies
- Ancient SchoolsLyceum, agoge, philosophical schools, grammar schools, House of Wisdom
- Schools of ThoughtStoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Scholasticism, Pythagoreans
- ancient skepticismsuspension of judgment, ataraxia, Agrippa, anti-dogmatism
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