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Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philosophy.

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Plato (474 BC-347 BC). Plato's works available in Penguin Classics are Republic, The Last Days of Socrates, The Laws, Phaedrus, Protagoras and Meno, Timaeus and Critias, Theaetetus, Early Socratic Dialogues, The Symposium and Gorgias.