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Why is Plato considered an important Greek philosopher?

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Plato is considered by many to be the most important philosopher who ever lived. He is known as the father of idealism in philosophy. His ideas were elitist, with the philosopher king the ideal ruler. Plato is perhaps best known to college students for his parable of a cave, which appears in Plato's Republic.
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c: he wrote about an ideal form of government in The Republic.

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