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Plato - Stephany Valle, Daniel Villa, Max Gales

Plato was born in Greece, 428/427 BC. He lived for 81 years and died on 348/347 BC. He was a physicist, writer, mathematician, and philosopher. He is most known for is that as a philosopher he founded the Academy in Athens first institution of higher learning in the western world, his students was Socrates and Aristotle. He was is also most known for being a mathematician and a writer and all the jobs he had. He was then influenced by by Socrates in his belief of searching the meaning of life. When Socrates died because Athenian democracy executed he he was focused on figuring out why society could be structured so as to bring out the best in people. Plato believed that the best government was a society that can be constructed to bring out the best behavior in its citizens. He knew that everyone has there weakness and strengths but that everyone is able to be good in something and should be doing what they can do best.