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Unknown (Who is Plato? ((After Socrates death (In Plato's written work…
The real worlds is the world of Ideas, which contains the ideal Forms of everything.
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The illusory world in which we live - the world of the sense- contains imperfect copies of the Ideal Forms.
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Who is Plato?
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Named Aristocles, but took the nickname Plato (what means (broad')
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After Socrates death he became disillusioned and left Athens. He traveled in Southern Italy and Sicily.
He founded a school (385 B.C.) called Academy (from the word 'academic') and was head of the school until his death in 347 B.C.
After Socrates death
In Plato's written work it was sometimes difficult to figure out which thoughts and ideas were from Plato or from Socrates. However there was a picture found in his work en this shows that Plato used the methods of his mentor to explore and explain his own ideas
After the death of his mentor (399 B.C.) he saw it as his duty to preserve what the had learnt from his mentor. His concerns were very smiliar as his mentors: to search for the definition of abstract moral values.
Seeking the ideal
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Raises question: How we would recognize the correct, or perfect form of anything (a form that is true for all societies and for all time).
Some kind of ideal form of thing in the world (moral or physical) must exist of which we are in some way aware.
As in mathematics: we are able to perceive the perfect triangle (corners existing of 180 degrees), we pervcieved this using our reasoning. However we do know that the perfect triangle doesn't exist anywhere in the natural world.
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Innate knowledge
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Plato argues in his work that those who are true to the philosopher's calling, who should be the ruling class. This is because only the true philosopher can understand the exact nature of the world and the truth of moral values.
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Later his ideas were found in the Church (by proposing that the use of reason, rather than observation is the only way to acquire knowledge).
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