Question

Which of the following shows the correct student-teacher Relationship of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great?
A. Socrates-Aristotle
B. Aristotle-Socrates
C. Alexander the Great-Plato
D. Plato-Socrates

Answer 1

Hint: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were ancient Greek philosophers and their theories were very helpful in ancient times. Alexander the Great was the King of Macedonia from 336 to 323 BC.

Complete answer:
The correct student-teacher relationship is that of Plato and Socrates. Plato came under the influence of Socrates in his early youth and manhood, as he remained with him till his execution. Socrates was executed since he was found guilty of “impiety” and “corrupting the young” he then drank a deadly potion of the poisonous plant hemlock and died. Plato also had political ambitions in his early years. But what led Plato to give up his original idea of adopting the political career was his revulsion against the acts of violence committed during the regime of the Thirty Tyrants and the illegal acts by which they strove to consolidate their power. The democracy restored after the downfall of the Thirty Tyrants fared no better. Its condemnation and execution of his beloved Guru, Socrates, shocked him; it produced in him a repulsion from the political career. He realized that if his aim was the establishment of a just order in his beloved city, participation in her civic affairs was utterly useless. It was useless because a well-intentioned leader would have to recruit his followers from among the very people whose moral confusion was the source of disorder. He, therefore, made the resolve to renew the Hellenic order out of the resources of his own love of wisdom. In other words, he turned to philosophy. It became the mission of his life to justify Socrates and to demonstrate that, though a saint-like Socrates was a misfit in Athens of those days, what politics needed most was persons like him.

Thus, option (D) is correct.

Note: In the Republic, written by Plato, Plato had Socrates as a central figure.