I am Plato. I became disgusted with societyafter the citizens of Athens put my teacher Socrates to death. I was initially interested in the meaning of ethical terms, but I abandoned my mentor's skepticism and began to construct and entire system of metaphysics based upon the reincarnation of the soul and immortal ideas which are the true meaning of all reality. I expressed all my ideas in beautiful dialogues between characters who were both fictional and real. For this reason we can never know for sure what I really believed. In fact, I went on recordonce as saying that the central task of philosophy is to commune with the things themselves, and that this can never be done through writing. So while I am the father of philosophy, its hard to know whether I wasn't just being ironic the entire time. Oh yeah, and I was also queer as a three dollar bill.

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