A man teaches a slave how to (*) square a circle in one of this thinker's works,
A character in one of this man's works claims that love is descended from resource and poverty and describes the hierarchy of the forms of beauty, while another character in the same work claims humans were perfect circles that were cleaved in two. A man teaches a slave how to (*) square a circle in one of this thinker's works, while yet another of his works contains the example of the Ring of Gyges and a discussion of a man who comes to realize there are forms beyond the shadows on the wall. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote the Symposium, Meno, and included the Allegory of the Cave in his The Republic.
A character in one of this man's works claims that love is descended from resource and poverty and describes the hierarchy of the forms of beauty, while another character in the same work claims humans were perfect circles that were cleaved in two.
Plato