A look at plato and why he was a classical writer.

Plato in a Classical World In our times, we often look back and compare the present against the past. One of the areas that we tend to do this with is philosophy. We can currently try and generalize the two types of philosophy into two categories: Classical and Romantic. Born on 428 B.C., Plato was one of the most influential Classical writers of all time. Plato can be said to be a classical thinker in …

…perfection, order, and the idealism of the world. For Plato, the true being is independent of our sense experience and can only be known by reason. This can certainly describe the Classical Period, which has so greatly influenced our current philosophies. It was the time in which many of our current intellectual discoveries were made and the advancement of the human mind took place. Plato will always be thought of as an influential Classical thinker.