School · 428 BCE–500 CE
Platonism
Platonist inquiry developed from Plato's dialogues into traditions that treated intelligible principles, dialectic, education, and the soul as mutually illuminating philosophical concerns.
Shared questions
- How can dialectic lead from unstable appearances to knowledge of intelligible principles and the good?
Internal disagreements
- How literally Plato's dialogues prescribe a metaphysics of Forms and how political, mathematical, and ethical inquiries fit together.
Key texts
- Republic — Plato's dialogue joins an account of justice to education, knowledge, and political order.