Socrates and Plato Set - Teacher and Student - Fathers of Western Philosophy - Alabaster Sculptures

Item Specifics

Socrates Details:
Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Height: 17 cm(6.7")
Width: 7 cm(2.7")
Weight: 600g
Material: Alabaster

Plato Details:
Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Height: 17 cm(6.7")
Width: 7 cm(2.7")
Weight: 600g
Material: Alabaster

Socrates (470-399 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and is considered the father of western philosophy. Plato was his most famous student and would teach Aristotle who would then tutor Alexander the Great. He is known for creating Socratic irony and the Socratic method. He is best recognized for inventing the teaching practice of pedagogy, where the teacher makes a question in a manner that he draws out the correct response from the student. Socrates has also contribution to the field of ethics and his input to the field of epistemology and logic is also noteworthy.

The Athenian philosopher Plato (c.428-347 B.C.) is one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world and the entire history of Western thought. In his written dialogues he conveyed and expanded on the ideas and techniques of his teacher Socrates. The Academy he founded was by some accounts the world’s first university and in it he trained his greatest student, the equally influential philosopher Aristotle. Plato’s recurring fascination was the distinction between ideal forms and everyday experience, and how it played out both for individuals and for societies. In the “Republic,” his most famous work, he envisioned a civilization governed not by lowly appetites but by the pure wisdom of a philosopher-king.