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Single Idea 12046

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy ]

Full Idea

In the ancient world Plato was seen as a pivotal figure, the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas.

Gist of Idea

Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas

Source

Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Ch.6)

Book Ref

Annas,Julia: 'Ancient Philosophy: a very short introduction' [OUP 2000], p.101

The 6 ideas with the same theme [philosophy 410 to 322 BCE]:

13773 For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course [Socrates]
21336 Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]
2913 Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche]
7719 European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]
23889 Among the Greeks Aristotle is the only philosopher in the modern style [Weil]
12046 Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas]