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nounancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
Definition that contains plato
- company small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- section a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- atlantis according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake
- platoon a team of policemen working under the military platoon system
- socrates ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)
- aristotle one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
- platonic of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy
- theurgy white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists)
- plato's academy a school established by Plato in ancient Athens
- neoplatonism a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable