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Finland

After the Germans occupied Norway, Finland agreed to hand over Petsamo's nickel production to the Germans, allowed the transport of German troops through its territory, and procured weapons from the country.


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Finland

At the same time, the Soviet Union pressured Finland with demands for area renditions, transit, and nickel production.


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Finland

In Finland, the port of Liinahamar in Petsamo was the only free route to the oceans.


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Finland

[67] Finland and Germany developed close brother-of-arms relations, and as Germany took advantage of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Finland also launched an invasion.


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Finland

In the Continuation War, Finland regained its old state territory with German support, and occupied East Karelia.


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Finland

In northern Finland, defence and front responsibility had been handed over to German forces.


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Finland

However, as a result of the Soviet Grand Offensive that began in June 1944, the front line moved close to the limits of the Winter War.


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Finland

President Risto Ryti resigned and was replaced by the wartime commander-in-chief, Marshal C.


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G.


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E. Mannerheim.


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Finland

In September 1944, an intermediate peace treaty was concluded between Finland and the Soviet Union, which required the eviction of German troops from Finland.


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Finland

[55] After the Continuation War, some of the land lost by Finland to the Soviet Union was annexed to the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, some again to the Leningrad and Murmansk regions.


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Finland

After the Continuation War, Finland had a significant number of problems to clear up.


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Finland

The Lapland War had to be fought with Germany to expel former brothers in arms from Lapland.


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Finland

[68] With the coming of peace after the Continuation War, the settlers evacuated from Karelia and the frontmen had to be settled, and therefore the Land Acquisition Act was enacted.


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Finland

[69] Furthermore, Finland had to pay large war reparations to the Soviet Union, but on the other hand to prevent excessive growth of Soviet influence.


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Finland

The Paasikiven—Kekkonen line was formed as the foreign policy line.


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Finland

The line sought to take into account Soviet security interests but prevent its excessive influence on domestic politics.


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Finland

Unlike other countries left in the Soviet sphere of influence, the Communists did not rise to power in Finland, although in the years of danger, the threat of a Communist coup was considered real.


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Finland

A major reason was that the Soviet Union, due to the overall military-political situation, did not want to support the possible coup plans of the Finnish Communists.


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Finland

[70] The communists were forced to leave the government in 1948, Finland joined the Nordic Council and the United Nations in 1955 and regained Porkkala, leased to the Soviet Union as a base, in 1956.


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On the other hand, Finland was forced to conclude the YYA Treaty in 1948, which tied Finland militarily to the Soviet sphere of influence.


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Finland

[71] [72] Kekkonen period During Urho Kekkonen's long presidential term (1956—1981), Finland transformed itself from an agricultural country to a modern industrial and service society.


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Finland

Thus, the countryside began to become depopulated starting in the 1960s as rural populations moved to industrial centres and Sweden.


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Finland

At the same time, the educational level of society began to rise significantly in the 1970s with the transition to the primary school system and the strong expansion of higher education.


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Finland

Economically, Finland integrated with the West by joining the European Free Trade Organization and entering into a free trade agreement with the European Community.


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Finland

[73] Domestically, Kekkonen's long presidential term was fragmented.


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Finland

It was characterised, for example, by the dispersal of the Social Democrats and then the Communists.


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Finland

Kekkonen exercised his powers more fully than perhaps any other Finnish president.


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Finland

In the 1970s, Soviet influence on domestic politics grew.


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Finland

[74] From the 1980s to the deep depression during the presidency of Mauno Koivisto, Finland switched from presidential centrism to parliamentarian rule.


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Finland

At the same time, the eastern neighbour began to be cautiously distanced.


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Finland

The so-called clearing trade between Finland and the Soviet Union had grown to play a major role in Finland's economy by the end of the 1980s.


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Finland

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Finland's trade in the east collapsed completely in late 1990, which, together with the uncontrolled liberalisation of financial markets in the 1980s, plunged Finland into a deep economic depression.


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Finland

The Soviet Union was left in debt as a result of the closing clearing trade to Finland, leading to simultaneous bankruptcy of several Finnish large companies, deep economic depression and high unemployment.


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Finland

As a way out of the recession, Finland chose strong economic liberalisation and closer integration with Europe.


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Finland

Koivisto took advantage of the situation created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification by saying that the military articles of the YYA Treaty and the Paris Peace Treaty limited Finland's armament.


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Finland

[75] Finland, as part of the European Union, joined the European Union on 1 January 1995.


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Finland

[76] As one of the first countries to adopt the euro, Finland became one of the first countries on 1 January 2002.


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Finland

[77] During the boom of internationalism in the 1990s, Finnish society began to become internationalised and the number of immigrants living in Finland increased.


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Finland

[78] The number of the population employed in agriculture decreased and the population moved to the cities.


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Finland

In the years after the recession, a great belief in the triumph of information technology as a driver of the economy arose in Finns.


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Finland

The IT boom of 1999-2000 caused an IT bubble: shares grew wildly in value, but a boom was followed by a crash.


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Finland

Income inequality among citizens grew particularly rapidly in Finland between 1995 and 2005.


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Finland

[79] From structural change to economic depression, Finland's economy's dependence on production abroad increased throughout the 2000s.


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Finland

In the forestry industry, in particular, several production facilities had to be closed.


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Finland

The economic crisis that spread throughout the world crippled Finland's exports in autumn 2008 and the following year Finland's gross domestic product decreased by 8.5%.


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Finland

Although GDP volume has increased in the early 2010s, in 2016 it was still below 2008 levels.


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Finland

[80] Governance and politics miniature|upright|Left|The Finnish Parliament meets at Parliament House in Helsinki.


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The state form of Finland is a republic.


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Finland

The head of state of Finland is the President of the Republic, who is elected for six years at a time by direct popular election.


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Finland

[81] Finland has applied a semi-presidential system for most of the time of its independence, but since the late 1980s the prerogatives of the President of the Republic of Finland have been narrowed, and especially in the constitutional reforms that took effect in 2000 and 2012, the position of the President changed primarily representative and value leadership related.


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Finland

However, the president still has formal veto power, [82] the highest officials are appointed by the president [83] and he leads foreign policy in cooperation with the Council of State.


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Finland

[84] In general, matters concerning the European Union are handled by the Prime Minister.


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Finland

Sauli Niinistö was elected president in 2012, who went on to his second term lasting until 2024 in the 2018 presidential poll.


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Finland

[85] Officially, the Prime Minister and other ministers, as well as the Attorney-General, form the Council of State, but in everyday parlance the composition of ministers is called the government.


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Finland

The current Prime Minister is Juha Sipilä and Finance Minister is Petteri Orpo.


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Finland

Administration The government, headed by the Prime Minister, exercises executive power, that is, takes care of the running affairs of the administration.


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Finland

The Prime Minister is elected in cross-party government negotiations and the Prime Minister usually appoints another twenty ministers to the cabinet.


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Finland

The drafting of the state budget and the preparation of draft laws also take place partly in ministries subordinate to ministers.


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Finland

According to the Constitution, power in Finland is vested in the people and the government in Finland is exercised by the President of the Republic and the Council of State, whose members must enjoy the trust of Parliament.


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Finland

[86] The parliament is a 200-member, unicameral parliament elected by proportional representation.


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Finland

Parliamentary elections are held every four years.


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Finland

A majority in parliament can force a government to resign by giving a sitting government a vote of no confidence.


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Finland

The parliament enacts the laws and approves the state budget.


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Finland

The Constitutional Committee of the Parliament monitors conformity with the constitution of the manufacturing laws.


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Finland

Finland, among the first countries, switched to universal and equal suffrage in 1905.


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Finland

The largest parties have long been the National Coalition Party, the Centre Party of Finland and the Social Democratic Party of Finland.


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Finland

The other current parliamentary parties are the PerusFinns, the Blue Future, the Christian Democrats of Finland, the Swedish People's Party of Finland, the Left Alliance and the Green League.


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Finland

In the parliamentary elections of 2015, the Centre Party emerged as the largest party.


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Finland

The board includes, in addition to the centre, the Coalition and Blue.


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Finland

Income policy in Finland has a so-called tripartite, where income distribution and working conditions are agreed between labour market organisations and the state.


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Finland

There have been only two governmental advisory referendums in Finland's history: on repeal of Prohibition and membership of the European Union.


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Finland

[87] Courts Judgment is exercised by independent courts.


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Finland

Common courts include district courts, courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court, which deal with litigation and criminal cases.


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Finland

Complaints about public administration activities and decisions are handled by administrative courts.


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Finland

The highest courts are the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court.


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Finland

[88] State regional administration for the purpose of regional government Finland is divided into the domains of six regional government agencies and the Åland State Agency to be assimilated into them: Regional Administrative Agency of Southern Finland Eastern Finland Regional Administrative Agency Lapland Regional Administrative Agency Southwest Finland Regional Administrative Agency Western and Inner Finland Regional Administrative Agency Northern Finland Regional Administrative Agency Åland State Office The province of Åland has self-government, and almost the entire territory of the province is demilitarized.


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Finland

Local government in Finland is just over 300 municipalities.


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Finland

Municipalities have the right to tax and provide municipal residents with basic services provided for by law, including social and health care, education and infrastructure.


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Finland

[89] Municipalities were established in accordance with the Municipalities Act of the 1860s.


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Finland

The supreme deciding body for municipal administration and finances is the municipal council, which is elected by universal, equal and secret municipal elections held every four years.


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Finland

The most central function of the municipal council is to decide the revenue and expenditure of the municipality.


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Finland

As the executive body of council decisions, the municipality serves as the municipal government, whose members are elected proportionally according to the distribution of council seats.


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Finland

The government also prepares matters for the council.


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Finland

Mayors and other senior officials act as rapporteurs for the municipal government.


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Finland

Various boards assist the government in its actions.


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Finland

The composition of the boards follows the example of the municipal government.


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Finland

Local Territorial Administration The provinces implement municipal self-government at the regional level.


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Finland

The provincial division, established in 1997, is fundamentally different from the historical provinces of Finland, of which there are nine.


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Finland

As of 2009, there are nineteen counties.


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Finland

One of the provinces, Åland Islands, is self-governing.


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Finland

Defence Forces The Finnish Defence Forces are divided into three branches: land forces, naval forces and air forces.


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Finland

The Border Guard, which is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, is not part of the Defence Force, but may be attached to


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Finland

The commander of the defence forces is General Jarmo Lindberg.


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Finland

[90] General conscription for men is in force in Finland, and women also have the right to volunteer.


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Finland

Conscription can be fulfilled as conscript service or civilian service.


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Finland

The proportion of servicemen in Finland is among the highest in the world.


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Finland

Responsibility for organizing military service rests with the Defence Force, whose reserve is trained by means of conscription.


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Finland

Conscription begins at the beginning of the year in which the man turns 18 and ends at the end of the year when the man turns 60.


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Finland

The size of the Finnish Defence Forces personnel is approximately 14000, of which 8500 are professional soldiers.


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Finland

There are about 34000 weapon suits on standby and the reserve size is about 350,000.


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Finland

[91] [92] Finland has participated in the NATO crisis management mission in Afghanistan since 2002.


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Finland

In 2014, Finland and NATO signed a host country agreement that allows, among other things, the deployment of troops and the establishment of bases, and obliges the host country to provide support for military operations.


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Finland

[93] Economy miniature|Stora Enso production facility in Oulu.


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Finland

Thumb|Shopping center Veturi Kouvola.


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Finland

Finland's purchasing power adjusted gross domestic product in 2017 is around US$242 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund's estimate.


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Finland

[94] Gross domestic product per capita between 2011 and 2015 was at the same level as, for example, Britain or France.


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Finland

[95] Finland has a small share of the global economy, but significantly higher than the population share, by about 0.2%.


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Finland

[94] The wood, metal, electronics and electrical industries are important for Finnish industry.


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Finland

Large industrial enterprises play a significant role, especially Nokia and forestry companies, which is why Finland's economy is sometimes seen as vulnerable.


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Finland

Finland has wood and minerals as natural resources.


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Finland

Finland's service sector accounts for the largest part of the economy.


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Finland

Compared to other OECD countries, it is considered undeveloped in many respects.


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Finland

[96] The development of services is hampered by the high level of costs due to taxation and wages.


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Finland

[96] [97] Finland's business is strongly based on the international market.


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Finland

Exports account for more than a third of the total domestic product.


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Finland

[98] Approximately 60% of Finland's international trade is intra-European Union trade.


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Finland

Finland's share is among the lowest among EU countries.


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Finland

Finland's main trading partners for 2014 were Germany, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, China, the United States, Britain and France.


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Finland

[99] The Finnish economy is illustrated by its openness to globalisation and the strong position of the public sector.


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Finland

[100] The Finnish market is among the freest in Europe.


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Finland

[100] Finland adopted the euro as the only Nordic country in 2002.


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Finland

Inflation has remained low.


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Finland

Finland has extensive freedom of enterprise, functional property protection, and corruption is low.


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Finland

[101] State income tax is paid on earned income such as salary, pension and benefits.


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Finland

The tax rate is progressive, meaning it increases as income increases.


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Finland

In 2015, income below EUR 16500 was not paid at all, the lowest tax rate was 6.5% and the top rate was 31.75%, which applied to annual income over 90000 euros.


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Finland

[102] [103] General VAT is 24%, capital gains tax of 30 or more than EUR 40000 on capital income is 32% and corporation tax paid by corporations is 20%.


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Finland

[104] [105] In 2013, the national debt amounted to approximately EUR 16000 per capita.


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Finland

[106] Finland had an unemployment rate of 10.1% and an employment rate of 66,6% in 2015.


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Finland

[107] The Finnish pension system is managed by private insurance companies.


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Finland

In the Finnish system, the workplace pension depends only on the pension earned, and there are no so-called personal retirement accounts, where the amount of the pension could vary depending on the return of the investment strategy chosen.


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Finland

The pension scheme is partially funded and the payment of pensions depends on future payers.


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Finland

Finland's dependency ratio is deteriorating.


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Finland

But funding promised pensions is estimated to be on a more sustainable footing than most Western European countries.


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Finland

[108] In 2014, Finland's largest company by turnover was Neste Oil.


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Finland

In second place was Nokia, which was expected to become the biggest again with the Alcatel-Lucent acquisition.


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Finland

Two forestry companies, Stora Enso and UPM-Kymmene, are in positions three and four.


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Finland

In fifth place was the retail company Kesko.


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Finland

[109] In 2012, Finland's most employable company was Itella, which offered employment to nearly 20,000 Finns.


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Finland

Other employers of more than ten thousand Finns were Nokia, ISS, VR and Kesko.


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Finland

[110] Energy Energy consumption per capita in Finland is the highest in the European Union.


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Finland

Reasons include high energy consuming industry (about half of consumption), high standard of living, cold climate (for heating 25% of consumption) and long distances (traffic 16%).


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Finland

[111] [112] The main sources of energy production are wood fuels (26% of total consumption in 2016), oil (23%), nuclear energy (18%), coal (9%), natural gas (6%), hydropower (4%) and peat (4%).


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Finland

Wind power covered one per cent of consumption; other energy sources combined four per cent.


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Finland

[113] Forestry waste broths are the largest source of renewable energy in Finland.


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Finland

[114] Science and Technology Finland has 15 universities.


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Finland

The higher education institutions carry out research mainly with funding provided by the Academy of Finland and the Centre for Technological Development.


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Finland

The AIV feed was invented by A.


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I. Virtanen was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


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Finland

Tourism In 2012, 7.6 million foreign visitors were recorded in Finland.


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Finland

[115] The largest number of tourists arrive from Russia, Sweden, Germany and Britain.


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Finland

[116] A popular destination is the province of Lapland, where activities particularly related to nature are organised.


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Finland

During the summer, Finland hosts a lot of summer parties with different themes, including music festivals.


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Finland

In Southern Finland, the most significant leisure tourism is ship cruises to Sweden and Estonia from Helsinki and Turku.


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Finland

Traffic Road transport Finland's road network is divided into state-owned and managed roads by the Finnish Finnish Transport Agency, streets owned and operated by municipalities and private roads operated by private people.


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Finland

29 highways form the body of the highway network, supplemented by mainland, regional and connecting roads.


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Finland

Some of the main roads are also European roads.


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Finland

At the beginning of 2014, the total length of the highway network was approximately 79000 km, of which the highways accounted for about 8600 km.


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Finland

There were 810 miles of highways.


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Finland

[117] Finland is a sparsely populated country, so traffic is low on average.


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Finland

Regarding traffic volumes, the road network is comprehensive and in good condition, although some of the busiest highways and major thoroughfares in urban areas are problematic from a road safety point of view.


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Finland

In addition, the condition of the lower road network has sparked debate.


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Finland

Rail transport miniature|upright=0.9|Pendolino train of the VR group.


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Finland

The Finnish network is operated by the Finnish Transport Agency, which is the railway authority, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Transport and Communications.


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Finland

The length of the line operated in Finland is 5944 km, of which 3073 km is electrified [118].


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Finland

The only permanent operator of passenger transport on the state rail network is the state company VR.


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Finland

Approximately one quarter (26% in 2015) of Finnish freight transport passes by rail in terms of traffic, i.e. in tonne-kilometres [119].


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Finland

Air transport to Finland is flown by about 26 international airlines.


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Finland

Finland's largest airline is Finnair, which is mainly owned by the state.


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Finland

Finland has 27 airports, the largest being Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Vantaa.


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Finland

[120] In 2016, 10% of Finland's exports, measured by value, were transported by air, 6% of imports.


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Finland

[121] Shipping by sea passes up to 90% of Finland's exports and 70% of imports, measured by quantity.


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Finland

[122] The largest port in Finland by tonnage is the port of Sköldvik in Porvoo.


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Finland

The largest of the public ports are the Port of Hamina-Kotka, the Port of Helsinki, the Port of Naantali and the Port of Kokkola.


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[123] The largest ports in mainland Finland by passenger traffic are the Port of Helsinki, the Port of Turku, the Port of Naantali and the Port of Vaasa.


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[124] The largest passenger shipping companies operating to Helsinki and Turku are Viking Line and Estonian company Tallink (whose business names include the Finnish Silja Line).


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In addition, services from Finland include Vaasa to Umeå Wasaline, Helsinki—Tallinn Eckerö Line and Linda Line Express, and between Mariehamn and Stockholm Birka Line.


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The popularity of shipping is increased by possible tax-free sales on ships passing through Åland.


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In Finland, the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications is responsible for the functioning of water transport.


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Population miniature|Approximately four out of five Finns live in built-up areas.


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[125] The picture shows the center of Lahti.


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About 5.5 million people live in Finland.


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The population crossed the four million mark in 1950, the five million mark in 1991, and the five-and-a-half million mark in 2016.


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[126] Finland has a relatively low population density, averaging over 18 people per square kilometre.


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More than a third of Finland's territory is north of the northern Arctic Circle, but most of the population lives in the south.


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The metropolitan area of over one million inhabitants is Finland's most significant growth centre, and the Tampere, Turku and Oulu regions have also grown strongly.


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In 2015, Finland had 749 agglomerations with 85% of the population living, but the area of built-up areas was only a good 2% of Finland's land area.


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[127] In 2012, the population center of Finland, or Weber point, was located on Hauho, Hämeenlinna (61.17 degrees north latitude and 24.67 degrees east longitude).


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[128] The share of the population migrating from abroad to Finland is among the lowest in the EU countries, although it has risen significantly since 1990.


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Four percent of the country's population are citizens of other countries, a large percentage of them are Estonian or Russian citizens.


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[129] The majority of citizens of other countries live in the metropolitan area and other major cities.


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Finland is moving most to other EU countries.


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[130] Sweden has traditionally been the single most popular destination country for the Finnish diaspora; in the folding of the 1960s and 1970s, massive migration to Sweden reduced Finland's population.


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[131] Age and gender distribution of the population The population of Finland is divided by age and sex, with Finns under 55 years of age outnumbering men than women.


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In age groups older than this, again, there are more women than men.


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In the age group 20 to 54 years, men are 43200 persons, or 3.6% more than women.


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[132] Population groups Population by nationality 31.12.2017: [133] Finnish citizens 95.47 percent (5263678) citizens 0.93 percent (51539) citizens 0.53 percent (29183) citizens 0.21 percent (11729) citizens 0.16 percent (8742) citizens 0.15 percent (8018) citizens 0.14 percent (7533) citizens 0.12 percent (6677) citizens 0.11 percent (5792) citizens 0.10% (5603) of the population of Finland were foreign nationals 4.5%, and 6.8% were foreign-born.


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[134] Languages According to the Constitution of Finland, the national languages of the country are Finnish and Swedish.


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[135] Finnish is spoken as the mother tongue by 88.0% and Swedish by 5.2% of the population.


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[136] Along with Estonia and Hungary, Finland is one of three independent states with Finno-Ugric language.


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The Swedish-speaking population is concentrated on the southern coast and the coastal region of Ostrobothnia and Åland.


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Other minority languages traditionally spoken in Finland include the three Sami languages Inari Sami, Northern Sami and Skoltan Sami (as a mother tongue in total around 1900), and Romani language (see.


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Finnish Roma), Tatar (see.


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Finnish Tatars) and Finnish Sign Language.


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The smallest language belonging to traditional minority languages in the country is Finnish-Swedish Sign Language (approximately 150 users).


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The right of the Sami and Romani and other groups to maintain and develop their own language and culture is safeguarded in the Constitution, but only the Sámi languages are usually counted as an official minority language.


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Only Estonian speaking residents who have immigrated from Estonia since the late 20th century are considered to be Estonian speakers.


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There were around 35,000 Russian-speakers living in Finland in the early 2000s, mostly those coming from the migration that began in the 1990s.


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Since the early 1990s, Somalis in Finland have grown from practically zero to a significant minority.


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As a result of increased immigration, at least 41 languages have more than 1000 speakers in Finland.


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[137] Population by language Largest language groups at the end of 2017: [138] substitute language1.Suomi48487612.Sweden2890523.Russia771774. viro495905.arabia264676.somali200077.english196268.kurdi13327 surrogate language9.persia1209010.china1182511.albania1039112.vietnam987213. thai940314.spanja777015.turkki773916.German6183 Religions Christianity arrived in Finland in the 12th century [139], but rural folk faith retained features dating back to the pre-Christian period until the 19th century.


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At the end of 2017, 70.9% of the people belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.


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[140] The second largest denomination is the Orthodox Church, comprising 1.1% of its affiliates.


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In the Constitution of Finland, the Lutheran Church has a special status [141] and there is also a special law [142] on the Orthodox Church and they have a status comparable to the state religion in some respects, but freedom of religion is safeguarded by law.


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[143] [144] At the end of 2017, the number of non-denominations was 26.3%.


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[140] Health in Finland The Public Health Act prescribes public health work to the municipality.


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The work is divided into medical care and preventive health care.


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Each municipality is required to provide certain basic health services, which, however, are not specified in detail.


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The municipality must have a health centre and possible branch offices for medical services.


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Due to the high cost of health care, several municipalities have created joint municipal associations for public health work.


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The municipality can also handle health services by purchasing services from another municipality or private service provider.


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[84] Expectant mothers have free healthcare and a “maternity kit” containing either money or basic baby necessities such as clothes, diapers and baby bottles.


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A third opt for money over a kit of supplies.


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[145] Families with children under 17 also receive grants from the state.


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Children receive free health and dental care until the age of 18.


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Largest municipalities in Finland's largest municipalities Error: Invalid time.. LocateCity PopulationNumber of townsNumber of inhabitants 1.11.2.12.3.13.4.14.5.15.6.16.7.17.8.18.9.19.10.20.


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Education in Finland is a legislative compulsory education for 7-16 year olds.


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The majority start at the age of seven typically start nine-year primary school.


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After primary education, the most popular secondary education choices for young people are vocational undergraduate and secondary school, which typically take two to four years to complete.


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Municipalities control primary schools, secondary schools and some of the vocational colleges in their area.


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[147] The higher education system is divided into universities and polytechnics.


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Universities are tasked with the highest level of teaching and research in their respective fields.


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Vocationally-oriented training is additionally given in polytechnics, which are owned by municipalities and private foundations.


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Funding for higher education is determined by performance agreements with the Ministry of Education, which specify the degree objectives of the college.


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The higher education system has been regionally decentralised in order to guarantee equal access to education in different parts of the country.


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The language of instruction in higher education institutions is predominantly Finnish, but there is also a Swedish-speaking university and polytechnic education for the needs of the Swedish-speaking population.


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Colleges also offer instruction in foreign languages, mainly English.


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Teaching is free up to university level, and students also receive study money, housing allowance and government-guaranteed loans.


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Internationally, the proportion of graduates of higher education in the age category is high.


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The main degree in universities is a master's or master's degree, the polytechnics in turn a polytechnic degree, which is equated in most contexts with a lower university degree.


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It takes an average of 5.1 years of effective working time to complete a higher university degree, but students work extends the total time spent on their studies.


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[148] The majority of Finns who attended primary school are very familiar with English and a little Swedish.


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Finnish and Swedish are taught to all Finns as a mother tongue or foreign language.


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In addition, German has been studied in high schools quite commonly.


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The averages of 15 year old school students in Finland were one of the highest in one PISA study.


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The success of Finns in the PISA tests has been explained by the National Science and Mathematics Programme (LUMA) launched in 1996, the good performance of even the weakest schoolchildren and equality in education despite the socio-economic background of the family.


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[149] The best performing among Finnish universities in international comparisons is the University of Helsinki, which according to one assessment made in 2015 is the 76th best university in the world.


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[150] Culture In a broad sense, Finland has been in the realm of Western culture for almost all of its history.


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Culture has been centrally influenced by the Western Christian tradition in its Catholic and Protestant forms.


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Finnish culture was influenced by its old age especially from Germany and Sweden, part of which Finland was part of for about 700 years.


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Early on, the regions of Eastern Finland and Karelia also came to influence from the Russian-Orthodox cultural region.


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Later Finnish culture has been heavily influenced by American and international popular culture.


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Finns themselves are often happy to sketch their culture with things like sauna, guts and proximity to nature.


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Finnish culture has had divisions geographically and by population group, but cultures have since strongly merged.


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Minorities maintain their own cultural traits, notable as the subcultures of the Sami, Roma and Finnish-Swedes.


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Since the urbanization of the country is late to reverse, a large proportion of Finns have a bond with the countryside.


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Finns who have moved to larger population centres, for example, often spend their leisure time in the countryside, especially by watercourses.


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Literature Finnish books have been written in Finland on the creation and introduction of the literary language since the 16th century, until the 19th century, although mainly only religious literature and legal texts.


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Mikael Agricola is considered the father of Finnish literary language and Finnish literature.


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The country's national poet is Johan Ludvig Runeberg, whose most famous work is the stories of Ensign Stool.


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Elias Lönnrot, who compiled the Finnish national epic Kalevala, started the tradition of fiction in Finnish by compiling a book on Karelian folk songs.


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The founder of Romanesque literature in Finnish was Aleksis Kivi with his Seven Brothers, which appeared in 1870.


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He was followed by Juhani Aho, among others, and Minna Canth, who focused his attention on social grievances.


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On the poetry side, Eino Leino developed a gallelight-influenced, national-romantic style.


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E. Sillanpää was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939, especially for his depictions of the rural population.


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After World War II, books by Mika Waltari and Tove Jansson became very popular abroad as well.


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In Swedish poetry, early 20th century modernists such as Edith Södergran and Elmer Diktonius achieved international attention.


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Finnish-language poetry switched to modernism after World War II as its main names including Paavo Haavikko and later Pentti Saarikoski.


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Väinö Linna described the years of fate of the nation from new perspectives in his novels The Unknown Soldier and Here Under the North Star.


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Kalle Päätalo, Veikko Huovinen and Arto Paasilinna were popular with a wide circle of readers.


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Known contemporary writers include Jari Tervo, Kari Hotakainen, and numerous decharists.


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Historical novels are also a popular genre in Finland, represented by artists such as Kaari Utrio and Laila Hirvisaari.


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The Finlandia Prize for Best Novel is awarded annually.


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Music Folk music Early Finnish music includes Kalevalan tunes and traditional instruments for the national instrument kantele, as well as various flutes and horns.


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In the 18th and 19th century, a popular folk instrument became the violin, with which the game annals played European-style dance tunes.


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Art Music Finnish national anthem is a Maamme song composed by Fredrik Pacius.


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The Finnish national composer is Jean Sibelius, whose most famous composition for Finns is Finlandia.


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Finland has been called the 'great power of art music' because through the system of music schools and conservatories built after World War II, Finland has become a large number of world-class art musicians in proportion to the population: conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Osmo Vänskä and Mikko Franck; opera singers such as Karita Mattila, Soile Isokoski, Martti Talvela and Matti Salminen, soloists such as Olli Mustonen and Pekka Kuusisto, and composers such as Einojuhani Rautavaara, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho.


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Finnish art music began to emerge at the end of classicism.


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The most notable composer of this era was Bernhard Henrik Crusell.


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A key influence in the early Romanticism period was the German-born Fredrik Pacius, now referred to as the “Father of Finnish Music”.


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Aino Ackté founded the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1913.


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From the 19th century until the Second World War, the central stylistic direction of Finnish art music was late Romanticism and especially national romanticism, whose frontman was Jean Sibelius.


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The influence of Sibelius, who is widely known internationally, on Finnish music life was considerable.


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The first Finnish modernists, including Väinö Raitio and Aarre Merikanto influenced by Impressionism and Expressionism, emerged in the music scene in the 1920s.


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In the 1950s, the so-called Second Wave of Modernism was beached in Finland, which practiced 12-tone systems, serialization and timbre and field techniques.


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Erik Bergman was one of the pioneers.


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The 1970s saw the beginning of a renaissance of Finnish opera with the traditional operas of Aulis Sallisen and Joonas Kokkonen from their playing world.


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On the other hand, young composers and musicians brought European radical modernism to Finland, among others, in the circle of the “Korvat open” association, with the central names Saariaho, Lindberg and Salonen.


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Popular music thumbnail image|Upright|Välla.


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Iskelmämusic came to Finland in the 1920s.


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Popular singers have included Olavi Virta, Tapio Rautavaara, Juha Vainio, Katri Helena and Jari Sillanpää.


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The concept of Finnish rock was born into popular music in the 1970s, whose most famous representatives include Hurriganes, Juice Leskinen, Eppu Normal and Dingo.


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Finnish rock groups have been pursuing popularity with foreign audiences since the 1970s, but positive reviews received by Wigwam, for example, did not lead to a breakthrough.


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The first band to receive short-term success abroad was Hanoi Rocks.


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Starting in the late 1990s, Finnish popular music has enjoyed wider success abroad.


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Of the machine music bands Bomfunk MC's scored one single that was successful in Central Europe and Darude two.


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Rock group The Rasmus, along with metal music bands HIM, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Children of Bodom and Stratovarius, have released albums which have enjoyed success across the world.


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Apocalyptica, which plays metal on cellos, has also gained popularity.


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Värttin, a folk music ensemble representing world music, has also been successful abroad.


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Finnish hardcore punk has also done well abroad, for example Healthy Hands.


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The Eurovision Song Contests won 2006 won Lord with his song “Hard Rock Hallelujah” [152].


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Theatre The oldest Finnish language professional theatre, the Finnish National Theatre, was founded in 1872.


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[153] There are about 56 theatres in Finland whose activities are supported by public funds, for example the City Theatres in Helsinki, Turku and Kuopio.


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In addition, Finland has 107 professional theatres and numerous hobbyist theatres.


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Summer theatre activity is brisk.


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Fine art in Finland has been the subject of objects characterised as art since the Stone Age, exemplified by rock paintings and animal figures such as Huittinen's elk head.


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Examples of metal jewellery and tableware, decorated weapons, wooden objects and textiles have survived from the Iron Age.


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[154] Finnish art experienced its golden age in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


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Famous Finnish artists of the era include Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, Pekka Halonen, Tyko Sallisinen, Juho Rissanen, Ellen Thesleff, Helene Schjerfbeck, Magnus Enckell, and Hugo Simberg.


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Well-known sculptors include Wäinö Aaltonen, Eila Hiltunen and Laila Puinen.


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Contemporary artists internationally known include visual artist Hannu Väisänen, [155] video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila [156] and illustrator Tom of Finland.


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[157] Helsinki includes the Ateneum Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, as well as the private Amos Anderson Art Museum.


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Both Turku Art Museum and Tampere Art Museum have considerable art collections.


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The more northerly notable art museums are represented by the Oulu Art Museum, the Kemi Art Museum, the Aine Art Museum and the Rovaniemi Art Museum.


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Architecture and design Before the 19th century, most of the houses in Finland were built of wood.


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Stone churches as well as castles have been preserved from the Middle Ages.


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[158] The most notable of Finland's old church buildings is Turku Cathedral, which is the only Gothic type cathedral in Finland.


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[158] In Finland, the largest construction work was undertaken in the whole of the 18th century in the Swedish Empire when the Viapori Sea Fortress began to be built off Helsinki.


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[159] Baroque squares were built at the heart of the islands' fortifications, and a number of the most significant stone houses in Finland of the 18th century have been preserved in Suomenlinna.


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[160] A new era of architecture began in Finland in the 19th century when Helsinki, which was destroyed by fire, began to be built.


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The main architect of the works was the German Carl Ludvig Engel.


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[161] The Empire style developed its original direction in Finland, as neoclassical features from both the east and the west came to the country.


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[162] [163] At the end of the 19th century, Art Nouveau and National Romanticism fell through.


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[164] In Finland, national romanticism introduced materials, wood and natural stone (especially granite) from the homeland, as well as decorative motifs found in plant and animal kingdom.


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Finnish architecture first came to international knowledge when the Finnish pavilion, designed by Eliel Saarinen, Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren, received widespread attention.


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[165] The most significant mainline in the early years of independence was functionalism adopted in the 1930s.


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[166] The most central figure in functionalism was Alvar Aalto, widely regarded as the most significant architect in Finnish history.


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[167] Due to the urbanization of Finland in the 1970s, a typical family already lived in an apartment building in the city.


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[168] Top architecture was represented by many public buildings, such as Reima Pietilä's Dipoli in Otaniemi, Helsinki.


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[169] Architecture began to develop more diverse in the 1980s and often the buildings emphasised the individuality of the building site.


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[170] Film The first Finnish drama film was Salavinanburners in 1907.


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Film experienced a boom in Finland when Erkki Karu founded the film company Suomi-Film in 1919.


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The oldest fully preserved Finnish drama film is Olli's apprentice years from 1920.


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The first Finnish film to be shown abroad is Anna-Liisa, completed in 1922, and was also shown in Sweden.


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The first sound film fully completed with Finnish power was Tukkiboy' Bride was completed in 1931.


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In 1933, Karu, who left Suomi-Film, founded the new film company Suomen Filmiteollisuus.


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In 1936, the company reached the same level with Suomi-Film, which had managed the Finnish film industry alone.


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[171] Some well-known actors of the time included Ansa Ikonen and Tauno Palo, who maintained their popularity until the 1950s.


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During World War II (1939—1945), a large number of patriotic-pathoxic drama films were produced in Finland, as well as reality-escape epoch films and comedies such as SF's Waltz of the Kobble.


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In particular, a favourite on the big screen of the 1940s was Lea Joutseno, who starred in Valentin Vaala's brisk comedy films, among others.


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After the war, graduates included Vaalan Loviisa — the young mistress of Niskavuori and Humanti in Suviyökä.


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Erik Blomberg's White Deer (1952) was honoured at the Cannes Film Festival.


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Under the direction of Esa Pakarinen and Reino Helismaa, the so-called rillumarei film was presented in the early 1950s.


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Disliked by critics, loved by the people.


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Ten years after the end of the war, a film based on Väinö Linna's novel of the same name was completed.


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[171] The film was directed by Edvin Laine and remains the most watched film ever in Finnish cinemas [172].


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Well-known Finnish filmmakers include actor and screenwriter Spede Pasanen, whose most popular creations are the Uuno Turhapuro film series, and film director Aki Kaurismäki, who has garnered international acclaim.


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Kaurismäki Male Without a Past is one of the most internationally successful films in Finnish cinema history.


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It was Oscar-nominated and won the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival.


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Towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Finnish animations also increased their popularity around the world.


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About 370 newspapers and 5500 magazines are published in Finland each year.


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[173] 14000 books are published per year.


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[173] The most read daily newspaper in Finland is Helsingin Sanomat, with a circulation of 234258 in 2017.


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[174] The magazine has an average of 859000 readers.


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[175] Sanoma, publisher of Helsingin Sanomat, is the leading communications group in the Nordic countries, whose other newspapers in Finland include Ilta-Sanomat and Taloussanoat.


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Another of the major contributors to advertising-funded communications in Finland, Alma Media, publishes more than 30 newspapers, including Aamulehti, Iltalehti and Kauppalehti.


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The activities of the governmental communications company Yleisradio are published under a separate YLE tax.


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Finland's largest commercial television channel is MTV3, founded in 1957 and owned by Swedish company Bonnier.


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The most listened to radio channel in Finland is Yle Radio Finland [176].


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The most popular commercial radio channel is Radio Nova [177] [178].


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Sports Finland has achieved the most Olympic gold and Olympic medals in relation to the population of the state [179].


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The Finnish national game is baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, but the most popular sport today is ice hockey.


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[180] The most competitive enthusiasts are with football.


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[181] Popular forms of exercise include jogging, swimming, home gymnastics and gym training [182].


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In the 1920s, Finnish runners Paavo Nurmi, Hannes Kolehmainen and Ville Ritola were among the best runners of their time.


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Nurmi remains one of the most successful athletes in Olympic history with her nine gold Olympic medals.


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In the 1920s, Claes Thunberg dominated speed skating.


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In the 1950s, Veikko Hakulisen became one of the all-time ski athletes.


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In the 1970s runner Lasse Virén achieved a total of four golds in two Olympics.


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Rower Pertti Karppinen achieved three consecutive golds at the Olympic Games from 1976 to 1984.


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In the 1980s Matti Nykänen won Olympic gold in ski jumping four times and Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi in cross-country skiing three times.


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[183] [184] Major success in motorsport has been achieved by the four-time world champion Tommi Mäkinen in rally and Mika Häkkinen, a two-time world champion in Formula One.


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Other successful athletes have included ice hockey players Jari Kurri and Teemu Selänne, biathlon Kaisa Mäkäräinen, alpine skiers Kalle Palander and Tanja Poutiainen, and footballer Jari Litmanen.


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Plato (, 427—347 BC)


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was an ancient Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy, considered one of the most influential philosophers of antiquity and all history.


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He was the most famous pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle.


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[1] [2] As a philosopher, Plato was a rationalist, realist, idealist, and dualist, and has been the inspiration for many of these ideas in later philosophy.


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[3] He wrote on numerous philosophical topics and dealt specifically with ethics, politics, metaphysics, and the theory of knowledge.


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Plato is particularly known for his ideas doctrine, dialogues he wrote (including Pidot, Faidros, and State), and Socrates' defence speech.


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Plato's dialogues, as the only ones in antiquity, are probably preserved in their entirety to the present day, but some of the works passing in his name are considered unoriginal, written by later Platonics.


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[4] Plato was a fiction writer in style, so his writings included stories, metaphors and myths combined with an exploration of concepts.


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Plato also wrote down the teachings of Socrates, and also in Plato's dialogues, Socrates is almost invariably starring.


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However, it is unclear to what extent the opinions of the Socratic character in the dialogues are those of the true historical Socrates, and to what extent Plato's own thoughts put in Socratic's name (the so-called Socratic problem).


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In any case, Socrates contributed significantly to Plato's thinking and likely at least some of the ideas addressed by Plato's earlier works have been borrowed or applied from Socrates.


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[1] [2] Life The information about Plato's life comes mainly from six sources preserved from antiquity to modern times.


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These include surviving fragments of Philodemos' Academicorum philosophorum index Herculanensis from the first century BCE.


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; first chapters of “De Platone et eius dogmate” by Apuleius from the 10th century; the third chapter of the Lives and Doctrines of Significant Philosophers by Diogenes Laertios, “The Life of Plato”, from the 13th century; the commentaria of In Platonis Alcibiadem of Olympiodoros from the 5th century; and Hesykhios of Miletos Mention based on Onomatologos (5th century) in Suda (9th century).


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[5] The youth Plato was a native of Athens from the demos of Kollytos, and was born either there or on Aigina.


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His father was Ariston, son of Aristokle, and his mother Perictione.


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Plato was born into a relatively upper-class family, as he was related on his mother's side to the well-known statesmen Solon and Glaukon.


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His father, too, was of superior ancestry.


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Plato had two brothers, Adeimantos and Glaukon, as well as a sister Potone, who was the mother of Plato's later pupil and successor Speusippus.


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[6] Plato himself never married, and does not appear to have had much contact with women since his childhood.


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[7] [8] According to Diogenes Laertios, Plato's real name was Aristokles, according to his grandfather.


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The nickname Plato he is reported to have received from his wrestling partners.


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It means broad (platys) in Greek.


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It is not known whether it possibly meant his external essence, such as his forehead or the chest developed by wrestling, or the expansiveness of his “style”.


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[6] [9] However, according to some, Plato would have been his real name.


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This is supported by the fact that it was a standard name at that time.


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Dikaiarkhos says Plato participated as a wrestler at the Isthmian Games.


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In addition to sports, the young Plato was interested in painting and poetry: he is said to have written both dityrambs, lyric and tragedies.


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According to Diogenee, Plato served in Athens as a koregi.


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[6] As a pupil of Socrates, Plato became acquainted with Socrates in 407 BC, when he was 20 years old.


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[6] He immediately became his pupil.


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Plato had received a good education in accordance with his social class and was therefore familiar with philosophy even earlier, but after meeting Socrates, philosophy became his life's mission.


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Given his pedigree, it would have been natural for Plato to surrender to a political career, but the troubled times in Athens in the years following the Peloponnesian War caused him to abandon politics.


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According to the story, Plato also buried his dreams of a poet's career after first hearing Socrates speak.


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He is alleged to have burned the tragedies he wrote after getting there of his new calling.


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Instead of these traditional means of influence, politics and literature, he chose his own way of reforming society and outlining his own kind of social autopia.


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[9] [10] Plato was a pupil of Socrates for eight years, Socrates in 399 BC.


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until the death that occurred.


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[9] In antiquity, Plato was long counted as just one Socratic among others, and he was not always considered even the most significant of the Socratics, or even the actual continuation of the Socratic tradition to the same extent as other Socratics.


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Plato himself seems to have considered that he was not one of Socrates's closest friends.


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[11] Plato was also on bad terms with many other Socratics, notably Xenophon, Antisthene, Aristippos, and Aiskhine.


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With Xenophon, he was considered to be in competition because they wrote on similar subjects such as a defence speech to Socrates as well as a work called Pidot.


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On the other hand, the friction between Plato and Xenophon in particular has also been exaggerated in later legends.


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[12] [13] Plato attended — at least according to his own account — in the trial of Socrates, [14] but was not present when he died: according to Faidon, he was ill at the time.


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[15] Plato was greatly moved by the treatment received by Socrates, and most of his early work includes memoirs of his master.


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Plato admired Socrates so much that he later made this the protagonist of his dialogues and put his own thoughts entirely in his name.


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In reality, the ideas are probably Plato's own, but the inspiration for them has most obviously come from Socrates, because only so can his admiration for Socrates be explained.


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[9] After the death of Socrates, at the age of 28, Plato moved to Megara to Eucliide for a time together with some other pupils of Socrates.


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[6] They were fleeing possible persecution which might have been directed against the pupils of Socrates, who was sentenced to death.


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According to stories, Plato additionally travelled at least in Egypt and Cyrene before returning to Athens.


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It is reported that he would have met in Egypt with soothsayers and priests, as well as in Cyrene the mathematician Theodoros.


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Plato would have liked to travel to Asia as well to meet the Mages, but the wars prevented that.


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[6] Eudoxos [16] and Simmias, [17] and even Euripides, are mentioned as his travelling companions.


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[18] In addition to Socrates, Plato drew much influence from Heracleitus and Parmenide, among others.


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Diogenes Laertios explains that Plato would have joined Socrates after his death in the company of Kratylos and Hermogene.


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The former had been a pupil of Heraclitus, and the latter in turn had adopted the ideas of Parmenide.


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Furthermore, Plato was later influenced by Pythagoreans, whom he became acquainted with while visiting Italy.


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[6] [2] [19] Early dialogues The defense speech of Socrates is generally thought to be Plato's earliest work.


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It is a speech that Socrates gave in his defense at his own trial.


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Although it typically takes some liberties for antiquity in the name of artistic impression, it is thought to describe the core of original speech well.


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[20] Shortly after the death of Socrates, Plato also wrote his first, so-called early-stage dialogues.


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They include the wider and shorter Hippias, Ion, Kriton, Kharmides, Lakhes, Lysis, Euthydemos, Euthyfron, Gorgias and Protagoras, as well as the First Book of State.


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[2] The works were possibly completed very soon after the death of Socrates.


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Some may, in principle, have been completed as early as Socrates was alive.


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Ion and shorter Hippia have been suspected of such as this.


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According to the story told by Diogenes Laertios, Plato would have read into his dialogue Lysis to Socrates, who would have been angered because Plato had written in it something Socrates had never said.


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[12] Socrates' defence speech and Kriton are naturally born only after the death of Socrates.


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[9] Around the year 389 BC.


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Plato first traveled to Greater Greece and Sicily to the territory of present-day Italy.


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He attended both Taras and Syracuse.


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One reason for the trip may have been a desire to get acquainted with Pythagorean philosophy.


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Plato

In Taras, he is known to have been in contact with at least the Pythagorean Arkhyas.


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[21] According to Diogenee, in Italy he also met Philolaos and Eurytos, who belonged to the same school.


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[6] In Syracuse, Plato became acquainted with Dionysios the Elder, the tyrant of the city, and his kinsman Dion, and taught them philosophy.


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Dionysios himself did not agree to abandon his violent principles of governance, but Dion became a pupil and friend of Plato.


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Plato returned to Athens in 388 BC, because Dionysios drove him away offended by his teachings that a tyrant should not rule solely by force but should also be particularly virtuous.


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[9] According to one account, Dionysios would have sold Plato as a slave to the Spartan emissary Pollis and the Cyrene Annikeris would then have freed him.


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[22] [23] The period of Plato's early dialogues is thus placed between the death of Socrates and Plato's First Sicily voyage, around the years 399-387 BCE.


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[2] Plato's Academy, mid-stage dialogues after returning from Italy Plato founded the renowned philosophy school Academy.


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This happened around the year 385 BCE, when Plato was about 40 years old.


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The academy was located in Athens in a grove called the Akademeia.


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A park-like sports venue was located there, where Plato began teaching philosophy to the philosophy enthusiasts who gathered around him.


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[9] The most famous students include Aristotle, who studied there like many other well-known scholars for several years.


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Other pupils of Plato included Speusippos, Xenocrates, Filippos, Dion, Heracleides, Lykurgos, and Demosthenes.


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Plato's pupils also included women.


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[24] The Academy was one of the earliest organized educational institutions in the Western world, and in addition to teaching, its activities included research from all fields of science.


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In addition to the Akademeia, Plato also taught at Kolonos in his own garden.


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[6] For Plato himself, the establishment of the Academy has probably been his most significant achievement.


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[25] He served at the head of the Academy without interruption for about twenty years and for about forty years in total.


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He surrendered the school only for the duration of his travels to Herakleide in charge.


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[26] During this season, his philosophy developed to its full maturity.


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During that time Plato also wrote the mid-stage dialogues, including his most famous works The State and Pidot.


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Plato

Other mid-stage dialogues include Faidon, Kratylos, Meneksenos, and Menon, the last three of which are sometimes considered to belong to the transitional period between early and mid-stage dialogues.


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Plato

The transition towards the late stage additionally includes Parmenides, Theaitetos and Faidros.


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Including transitional phases, the period of mid-stage dialogues is set in the years 387—355 BCE.


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[2] Late stage dialogues In 366 BCE.


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Plato travelled for the second time to Sicily at the invitation of Dionysios the Younger and his counsellor.


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Plato's intention was likely to teach the young tyrant the ideals of a philosopher king he defined in the State.


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According to Diogenes Laertios, his purpose was to ask Dionysios for land and inhabitants who would take up life according to the form of statesmanship he envisaged.


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It is uncertain, however, whether he was actually dreaming of establishing an ideal state in Sicily.


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Eventually, however, Dionysios and Dion feuded, and Plato too was forced before long to leave the country.


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He returned to Athens to run his school in 365 BC.


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In 361 BC.


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Plato returned to Sicily for the third and final time, for he was recalled.


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His purpose was to bring reconciliation between Dionysios and Dion.


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Construction of the settlement failed, however, and Plato was taken hostage.


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He was able to return to Athens in 360 BC.


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[27] [9] With the exception of voyages to Sicily, Plato served at the head of the Academy until the end of his life without showing significant infirmity in old age.


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[28] On his final return to Athens, Plato wrote his late-stage dialogue.


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They include (possibly in chronological order) Sophist, Statesman, Filebos, Timaius, Critias, and Laws.


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[2] Plato died at the age of about 80 in 347 BC.


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According to the more reliable information conveyed by Diogenes Laertioksenk, he died in the middle of the wedding meal, [29] [28] according to Cicero in turn in the middle of writing.


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[30] Plato's death was a case of character in Athens.


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He was buried in the grounds of the Academy while the whole school attended the funeral reception, and Philip II is also reported to have attended the funeral.


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A cult expenditure was dedicated to Plato's memory, which included an annual celebration.


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[29] [28] Laws, which was unfinished at the time of Plato's death and written solely on waxboards, were not published until after death.


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[2] [31] The period of late-stage dialogues is therefore set in the years 355—347 BCE.


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[2] Philosophy Plato, like Socrates, thought that there was something divine in wisdom, that philosophy, which originated from the desire for knowledge, was an activity necessary for an intellectual man and the greatest blessings of which man can be involved.


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When a man pursues wisdom with a lover's passion, it becomes a purifier of the soul, guiding him from nightlike darkness to light.


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However, such a pursuit of wisdom requires that man has already been associated with the deity in the first place, and this connection means that the soul is divine and immortal in nature and has an innate need to be like the eternal.


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It is through philosophy that not only knowledge, but also the right action.


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[32] Socrates' idea that virtue is practical knowledge comes to light in the dialogue Protagoras and the related smaller dialogues.


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They lay the foundation of Plato's ethics by refuting general views that were attached to morality and virtue.


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Although the words ethics and physics do not even appear in Plato's works and dialectics are not presented as a separate field either, Plato can still be seen as the originator of the classical tri-division of philosophy — dialectics (and logic), physics, and ethics.


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He probably had the goal of developing the Socratic method into a scientific dialectical (logical metaphysical) system that would provide a basis for both human knowledge (physics) and action (ethics).


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Because of this, he distinguished public knowledge research and understanding, at least to some extent, on matters related to physics and ethics.


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Of the dialogues Theaitetos, Sophist, Parmenides, and Kratylos are primarily dialectical, Protagoras, Gorgias, Statesman and Filebos primarily ethical, and Timaios deals primarily with physics.


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Plato, however, can be seen to have been more successful in dialectics and ethics than in his physics.


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[32] Plato's thinking has been interpreted mainly in two ways.


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In antiquity, his works were considered to form a cohesive whole.


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In modern times, Plato's thinking, by contrast, is most often considered to have evolved and changed over time.