Unlike the natural philosophers preced him Plato describes the world cognitively. He proposes Plato's ideas are still the bedrock of psychology today.
When we think psychology our mind usually gravitates to people like Freud or Yung, but all modern ideas can be traced back to Plato. He was among the first to discuss the soul, about God as a abstraction of perfect form etc ....
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Plato is such an influential thinker: our version of Christianity and some of the most popular movie franchises can be traced back to him.
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