Platonic Academy
True reality lies in eternal Forms; the visible world is only their shadow
Key ideas
- A world of Forms and a world of things
- Knowledge is recollection of what the soul knew before birth
- A just state ruled by philosophers
- Dialectic: reaching truth through dialogue
Key thinkers
- Plato (founder) — ancient Greek philosopher, 428 BC–348 BC
- Aristotle — ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, 384 BC–322 BC
What grew out of it
- Peripatetic school c. 335 BC – 200 · Europe
- Neoplatonism c. 245 – 529 · Europe
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Mohism Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Legalism Asia
- Nyaya Asia