This guy's "Republic" was one of the world's first – if not the first – academy of higher learning. Name that "Father of Philosophy".

Where would Western thought be without Plato? Founding the Academy of Athens around the 3rd century BC, Plato believed in a higher perception – called a "justified true belief" – rather than subjective perception upon which some based their beliefs.

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