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Plato - Coggle Diagram
Plato
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Theory of the forms
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If you destroyed all beautiful things, you wouldn't destroy beauty.
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Soul
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Soul and body, like a driver and a car.
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Tripartite view of soul - Emotion, appetite and reason.
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The analogy of the cave
1 - There are prisoners chained to the wall who can only see shadows of the objects behind them cast by a fire.
2 - A prisoner frees himself and then sees the reality of the fire and the objects. He sees the sun and he takes time to adjust to his new world view.
3 - When he returns to the cave, the others call him mad and reject his new world view.
Metaphors:
Cave - The world of the senses
Shadows - Particulars or illusions
Chains - Ignorance
Objects - The forms
The sun - The form of the good
The challenging ascend/adjustment - The process of arriving at the truth
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