How do we know Plato ever existed?
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I have a time machine...\nWe'll be back by morning, and if we find a club, what happens in Volos stays in Volos.
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did we ever even really know
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How the hell should we know?
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In Camus' Noble prize he said "Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered.". \n\nPhilosophically, the truth is not attainable because we really “know” nothing. Other than “I think therefore I am”, there is really nothing else that you “know” exists. Books, people, senses can deceive. There is no grantee that everything you see is not just a figment of your imagination. \n\nIn science, assuming that what our senses tells us is true, physicists have been searching for the underlying theory of the Universe. One theory, to predict everything that occurs in our Universe and in other universes beyond. This has been termed String Theory. They’re actually no longer strings, but membranes moving in 11 dimensions. In short, the unifying sting Theory is named M-theory. This, if understood, is hoped by physicists to be the one truth in our universes that will predict everything that has occurred, is occurring and will ever occur.
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All you can say is that that's as real as real gets.  And we can never know if we are enslaved in magic electro brain slave helmets or not.  Maybe this is all a dream?  Maybe there is a teapot orbiting mars.  Has anyone ever looked close enough?\n\nThe point is you can never be 100% sure of anything.  The trick is to find out how to get as close to 100% as possible.  There are some things that are useful to consider and others that are not.  Those that are undetectable and arbitrary and untestable may be interesting to consider for fun but have little use in the "realer" world.\n\nBertrand Russell and Daniel Dennett have a lot to say about philosophy that might interest you.  http://plato.stanford.edu/ is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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The only way to really find out is by experiment. I mean, this is the science section, not the philosophy section. Go out and fight something.
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Does one  exist in the first place?
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Atlantis is an island whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time. Most scholars now regard Plato's description of Atlantis as fiction, though it is often thought that Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War. Other scholars argue that Plato's account was inspired by events of his own day.
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Who knows? To be honest, no-one will ever know, barring the invention of a (theoretically impossible) time machine. It's a matter of personal belief.
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To one who examines the evidence, there can be no doubt that God exists. Every builing has a builder.  Everything made has a maker.  The fact of the existence of the Creator is self-evident. That's why the Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God'"(Psa 14:1). The professing atheist denies the common sense given to him by God, and defends his belief by thinking that the question "Who made God?" can't be answered. This, he thinks, gives him license to deny the existence of God.\n\nThe question of who made God can be answered by simply looking at space and asking, "Does space have an end?" Obviously, it doesn't. If there is a brick wall with "The End" written on it, the question arises, "What is behind the brick wall?" Strain the mind though it may, we have to believe (have faith) that space has no beginning and no end. The same applies with God.  He has no beginning and no end. He is eternal.\n\nThe Bible also informs us that time is a dimension that God created, into which man was subjected. It even tells us that one day time will no longer exist. That will be called "eternity." God Himself dwells outside of the dimension He created (2 Ti 1:9, Tit 1:2). He dwells in eternity and is not subject to time. God spoke history before it came into being. He can move through time as a man flips through a history book. Because we live in the dimension of time, logic and reason demand that everything must have a beginning and an end. We can understand the concept of space having no beginning and end--by faith. We simply have to believe they are so, even though such thoughts put a strain on our distinctly insuffecient cerebrum.\n\nHope this helps!
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Nobody can really know how to tell if God exists. It's all a matter of faith. That's what most religions are based on: faith in (a) supreme being(s). The Bible isn't much PROOF, but it does help to strengthen the bonds between God and His people. \n\nAnd no, the Bible is not straight from God. He may have spoken to his people, but he spoke through prophets (special messengers). Many (real) historical figures and prophets have written down their experiences with God in the Bible. Remember, the Bible was written hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years after these evens were said to have occured. Many of the stories in the Bible began as that--stories told from person to person through the oral tradition. \n\nAs far as proof goes, many of the historical facts (such as the dates of battles and kings of nearby kingdoms) have been found true. Names of Assyrian kings have been preserved. Do you remember reading about King Xerxes or the great Phoenician State of Tyre? These things have been proven to have existed at some point, only reinforcing the fact that there IS truth in the Bible. Whether or not you want to believe everything in it literally is up to you.
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Yes, based upon these laws of physics you just described.  No one has ever been able to prove that God existed in this manner.  But, that doesn't mean he/she doesn't exist.  It just means we have yet to figure out how to prove it.  I saw Jesus once, but then I realized that was just his nickname, he was actually Chris Furgeson.
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No it does not exist. It is just an acquaintance forced into or chosen for negligble fraction of time in cosmic sense. Acquaintance is just a phenomenon. There is nothing true or false about it.
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Plato wondered about the structure of world and that is indeed a long story to tell. But Plato also has a very famous theory about the ideal government.In his theory he claims that the wise people should be the ones to govern while stressing that safety is a key to a perfect world. But as a basis to his perfect world he wants everyone to love each other. Of course if you read in a book his theory you must know why his says everything because in his times the wisest of all people were philosophers so Plato looks like he puts himself on top of the world something that is not at all true
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How can you prove that it does exist?  Faith is not proof it is opinion.
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That's a large order - here is a really good source for Plato and major philosophers.  Hope this helps.
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Platon basically believes that the only ones who have access to the truth ( held within the world of Ideas) are the philosophers. Poets can't know this truth because although their work is an expression of beauty, and may contain in itself the germs of this truth, the poets themselves are unaware of it. The ancient view on poets (and creators of literary work in general) is that they are possessed by a muse, that they only pass on what the muse "whispers" to them in a state of inspiration. Therefore for Plato poets can only be used as tools of somehow manipulating the masses. This is their role in Plato's Utopian society. If you want to know more about it I suggest you read the dialogs Phaedros and The Republic. It is also interesting to compare Plato's belief with that of Aristotle, his disciple.\nI hope this helps :)