Plato. Small collected works

Plato is a great ancient Greek philosopher, whose ideas had a huge impact on the formation of the human spirit and culture of human thought of subsequent centuries. It is from him, the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, that the formation of strict scientific thinking begins. In this publication, the reader offers selected dialogs: “Fedon”, “Feast”, “Fedr” and “State”. In the first three dialogs, several greater topics are affected: the nature of philosophical knowledge, ethical doctrine in connection with the evidence of the immortality of the soul and love as a power that turns the personality to knowledge and makes it God -like. In the famous “state”, the philosopher determines the concept of justice, and also considers six forms of government - monarchy, aristocracy, thymocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny - and gives a description of the ideal state, which is governed by philosophers, “since only the wise can take care of the right lifestyle of all citizens.