PHILOSOPHER

Plato

427 BC - 347 BC

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Plato ( PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Plato has received more than 14,603,291 page views. His biography is available in 200 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 194 in 2019). Plato is the 2nd most popular philosopher, the 2nd most popular biography from Greece (up from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Philosopher.

Plato is most famous for his theory of Forms. Plato believed that the world we see is only a reflection of the true world of Forms.

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  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 95.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 200

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 21.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Plato ranks 2 out of 1,081. Before him are Aristotle. After him are Socrates, Confucius, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Gautama Buddha, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Avicenna, John Locke, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 427 BC, Plato ranks 1. After him is Emperor Kōan. Among people deceased in 347 BC, Plato ranks 1. After him is Archytas.

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    Plato

    427 BC - 347 BC

    HPI: 95.54

    Rank: 1

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    Archytas

    428 BC - 347 BC

    HPI: 71.47

    Rank: 2

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Plato ranks 2 out of 936. Before him are Aristotle (-384). After him are Alexander the Great (-356), Socrates (-470), Homer (-800), Pythagoras (-570), Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Hippocrates (-460), Sophocles (-497), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), and Pericles (-494).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Plato ranks 2. Before him are Aristotle (-384). After him are Socrates (-470), Pythagoras (-570), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Protagoras (-486), Plutarch (46), Gorgias (-483), Leucippus (-500), Theophrastus (-371), and Pyrrho (-365).

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