How Did Socrates Life Influence Plato's Life

Plato (427-347 B.C.) [Athens]. Plato was very much influenced by Socrates and carried on his work in the same vane. Plato, who's real name was Aristocales - the son of Ariston, a man of influential ancestry - who had studied the philosophies of the Pythagoreans, the Heracliteans, and the Eleatics, but who's chief association was seven years with Socrates. After travelling around the Mediterranean region, he returned to Athens and founded his own school (387 B.C.) in the Grove of Academus, whence it is called "the Academy." As intimated, Socrates work and personality were Plato's main inspirations, and in his writings (dialogues and perhaps some letters) Socrates stands as an important or central character. In 'The Apology' Plato reports
The final outcome of this is longing for immortality, which is discussed in the Phaedo, in the setting of the last hours of the life of Socrates. Presented here are various interpretations of the nature of the soul (especially its unity and hence indissolubility) and the soul's mastery of the body in its voluntary acts. The decisive argument is that since the realm of ideas is the true homeland of the soul, and ideas are eternal, immortality, properly understood, must be a valid
In literary composition, inspiration is as necessary as formal rules. The soul is self-active, the origin of motion in all that moves, and thus an Ultimate Being, Its true home is in the realm of absolute ideas, from which it has fallen and to which a noble Soul strives to return. Truth, as it is interpreted in Plato's Theaetetus, is not to be reached by sense impressions. Truth and falsehood are not to be identified by an easy intuition. A synthesis of intuition and analysis is necessary for the knowing process. The synthesis is exhibited again in the Parmenides, where there is a severe criticism of pure and abstract rationalism, taken without reference to concrete experience. The two sides of knowledge must be taken together. Plato recognised the irreducible character of the relation of content to form, the uniqueness of "being an instance of some concept." There results, as another work, the Sophist, shows, a stratified conception of reality, reaching step by step from the infinite many to the ultimate one. In logic it appears as the process of classification and definition. In the theory of reality, it allocates each aspect of experience to its proper place, allowing for relative degrees of reality and unreality,