Plato s Idea of the Form of the Good
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Plato's Idea of the Form of the Good
Plato is one of the founders for modern philosophy, laying the foundations for all philosophers after him. His rational approach to thought had huge impact on the history of Western thought. Plato began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates, writing down his teachings. Plato lived around 427BC- 347BC in the city of Athens in Greece. In Plato's thought, knowledge must be unchanging and permanent. His model for knowledge was thought was mathematics.
Dualism is the idea of two separate worlds, the physical world or the empirical world which allows change and controls senses and the metaphysical world. The metaphysical world is perfect, immutable and full of irrational thought. Plato described that absolutists believe in one idea of beauty etc. and that everything else is just imitation, he thought these people were incapable of rational thought...