introducing plato
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- Plato
- influenced by Socrates
- to be moral you must have true knowledge: to know what is right and what is wrong
- we do not gain knowledge through the senses
- empirical knowledge: knowledge that is gained through senses
- the two realms
- the material world that we live in is constantly changing whereas the spiritual world is unchanging
- the realm of appearances and the realm of reality
- dualist views
- Dualism: belief that humans are made of two distinct parts: the soul and the body
- two types of beings: spiritual beings (souls) and material beings (houses)
- we do not learn new things we remember them
- innate knowledge: knowledge that is gained through the mind rather than the senses: we have this from birth
- forms and ideals
- form: the idea of something. eternal idea of what a thing is.
- in our world we have an idea of what beauty is, this is due to the innate knowledge we have of what beauty is
- this allows us to recognise things like dogs
- form of the good and other forms
- the most important form is the form of the good. It illuminate and is the source of the other sources
- is an end in itself and gives purpose to life.
- influenced by Socrates
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