Measure of All Things

Plato of Athens is an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a teacher of Aristotle. It is with Plato that philosophy is formed as a system of knowledge. Man is the measure of all things. Or not? About this Socrates argues with the sophists in Protagoras, defending the goodness of the gods, but not of man, and revealing to his opponents the concept of virtue, which is the highest knowledge. The collection also includes Plato's works Theaetetus, Menexenus, Euthydemus, Gorgias, and Meno. These Socratic works take the form of dialogues, in which, through the method of questions and answers, the issues of education and the principles of learning, knowledge and ignorance, truth and falsehood, chaos and order, good and evil are clarified.