Reflection Of Plato's Philosophy

The Athenian philosopher Plato (c.428-347 B.C.) was one of the most important figures of the ancient Greek world and in the history of Western thought. Plato expressed in his written dialogues about the ideas and techniques taught from his teacher Socrates. Socrates was also a philosopher; he was known for asking many questions but never finding the answers to them. After Socrates forced suicide, Plato traveled southern Italy, Sicily and Egypt, in the search to learn. Plato’s fascination was the distinction between ideal forms and everyday experience, and how they played out both for individuals for societies. Plato believed certain people were not capable of thinking. He created an educational system, that only the brightest would get the information from the philosophers to be capable of making big decisions. Plato’s written dialogues addressed what makes a good person and how we should act in humanity. In Plato’s, “allegory of the cave,” Republic, book VII. He worked to compare the “the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature.” This dialogue was between Plato’s brother Glaucon and Socrates. Plato had Socrates describe a gathering of people who lived in a cave their whole

The visible world consisted of “the metaphor of the divided line: physical objects and their images, shadows, and reflections. Which can be compared to Plato’s dialogue, “allegory of the Cave.” The Intelligible world consisted of “the line in the metaphor of images and forms.” The forms were unchanging and eternal; they were what really existed. A man can not always be trusted, and not all humans were capable of being trusted, Plato believed. Plato thought, “we can’t know the good without wanting to do it. So unless we do the good, we will inevitably be inner turmoil.” Plato believed in knowing what was right and being able to do what is