Explain what Plato meant by the Form of the Good
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At the heart of all of Plato's philosophies is his Theory of Forms. Plato believed that as well as the material world in which we live there is an eternal world inhabited by Forms. He called this world The Realm of Forms. He believed that this world was more real than our world as it was the object of knowledge, not opinion. Plato argued that if our world is a constant of flux, how could we know true perfection as he believed perfection had to be unchanging.
In the Realm of Forms Plato believed that there were perfect forms of everything that has ever existed i.e. there was a perfect cat, a perfect dog, a perfect bed and so on. This idea causes all sorts of problems in itself. The idea of a perfect cat does not seem to have much reality even as a concept...