Editing Plato

{{Infobox philosopher|name=Plato|native_name=Πλάτων|image=Plato_by_Leonidas_Drosis_on_May_7,_2022.jpg|birth_name=Aristocles|birth_date=428/427BCE|birth_place=[[Athens]], [[Greece]]|death_date=348 BCE (aged c. 75-80)|death_place=Athens, Greece|notable_students=[[Aristotle]]|school_tradition=Platonic Academy}}

'''Plato''' was an [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[Idealism|idealist]] [[Philosophy|philosopher]] and [[Dialectics|dialectician]] most well known for his theory of forms and his dialogues whilst also proposing the abolition of [[private property]]. Plato is sometimes called a [[proto-fascist]] and as such many of his ideas have inspired [[Fascism|fascist]] idealogues; this is because the supposed [[Utopia|utopian]] society described in Plato's most famous work, ''Republic'', shares similarities with a fascist society, particularly in regards to [[Class collaboration|class collaborationism]] and [[eugenics]], the latter of which Plato was the first advocate for.<ref>{{Citation|author=L. Bloom|year=1962|title=On the social psychology of fascism|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41801478|page=44|publisher=Berghahn Books|series=Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory|volume=18}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=Plato|year=375 BCE|title=Republic|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/030921fb7a0b9e3effa91592bd2aee0c|volume=5-6}}</ref>

== Life ==
In 428/427 BCE Plato was born to an [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] family in [[Classical Athens|Athens]]. In roughly 407BCE he would meet [[Socrates]] and become a student of his, but after the death of Socrates Plato would travel to Megara followed by Cyrene and [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. In 389BCE he travelled to Italy and [[Sicily]] where he would meet with the students of [[Pythagoras]]. Plato would then return to Athens where he established his own school; Plato's Academy. In 367 and 361 BCE he would again visit Sicily at the request of [[Dionysius the younger|Dionysius]] of [[Syracuse]], who invited him with the intention of putting Plato's ideas into practise, this like all Plato's attempts to establish relationships with men in power predictably ended in failure. Plato would spend the remainder of his life in Athens writing and giving lectures before dying in 348 BCE.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=A. F. Losev|year=1979|title=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia|title-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Plato|chapter=Plato}}</ref>

In the 390’s BCE Plato wrote: the ''Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, Laches, Lysis, Charmides, Protagoras'', and Book 1 of the ''Republic''. In the 380's BCE he wrote: the ''Gorgias, Meno, Euthydemus, Cratylus'', and ''Hippias Minor.'' In the 370's and 360's BCE he wrote: the ''Phaedo, Symposium'', and ''Phaedrus;'' Books 2–10 of the ''Republic''); and the ''Theaetetus, Parmenides, Sophist, Politi-cus, Philebus, Timaeus'', and ''Critias''. Finally in the 350's BCE Plato would write the ''Laws.''<ref name=":1" />

== Philosophy ==

=== Eugenics ===
In his work, ''Republic'', Plato argues that all human reproduction should be controlled by the state with the identity of parents being unknown in order to produce better soldiers and philosophers, with the latter becoming "philosopher-kings." Plato proposed that the state run eugenics program be concealed from the population via a fixed lottery in which mates were assigned a marriage number in order to produce the most favourable outcome with the supposedly more desirable people being allowed to procreate with multiple people.<ref name=":0" />

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	'''Plato''' was an [[Ancient Greece\|ancient Greek]] [[Idealism\|idealist]] [[Philosophy\|philosopher]] and [[Dialectics\|dialectician]] most well known for his theory of forms and his dialogues whilst also proposing the abolition of [[private property]]. Plato is sometimes called a [[proto-fascist]] and as such many of his ideas have inspired [[Fascism\|fascist]] idealogues; this is because the supposed [[Utopia\|utopian]] society described in Plato's most famous work, ''Republic'', shares similarities with a fascist society, particularly in regards to [[Class collaboration\|class collaborationism]] and [[eugenics]], the latter of which Plato was the first advocate for.<ref>{{Citation\|author=L. Bloom\|year=1962\|title=On the social psychology of fascism\|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41801478\|page=44\|publisher=Berghahn Books\|series=Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory\|volume=18}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=Plato\|year=375 BCE\|title=Republic\|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/030921fb7a0b9e3effa91592bd2aee0c\|volume=5-6}}</ref>		'''Plato''' was an [[Ancient Greece\|ancient Greek]] [[Idealism\|idealist]] [[Philosophy\|philosopher]] and [[Dialectics\|dialectician]] most well known for his theory of forms and his dialogues whilst also proposing the abolition of [[private property]]. Plato is sometimes called a [[proto-fascist]] and as such many of his ideas have inspired [[Fascism\|fascist]] idealogues; this is because the supposed [[Utopia\|utopian]] society described in Plato's most famous work, ''Republic'', shares similarities with a fascist society, particularly in regards to [[Class collaboration\|class collaborationism]] and [[eugenics]], the latter of which Plato was the first advocate for.<ref>{{Citation\|author=L. Bloom\|year=1962\|title=On the social psychology of fascism\|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41801478\|page=44\|publisher=Berghahn Books\|series=Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory\|volume=18}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=Plato\|year=375 BCE\|title=Republic\|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/030921fb7a0b9e3effa91592bd2aee0c\|volume=5-6}}</ref>