Chapter 9: Plato

Notes:

Plato's Academy page 82

• To Plato, the death of Socrates was a striking example of the conflict that can exist between society as it really is and the true or ideal society. page 82
• Breiefly, we can establish that Plato was concerned with the relationship between what is enternal and immutable, on the one hand, and what "flows" on the other. page 83
• Sophists and Scrates turned their attention from questions of natural to man and society. page 83
• Plato tired to grasp a "reality" that was eternal and immutable [age 83

The Word of Ideas page 84

• Plato believed that everything tangible in nature "flows"
• "Form" of the horse is eternal and immutable.
• You have a picture of the horse in your mind so you can rebuild or draw the horse again.
• IDEAS: Plato called these forms ideas. Behind every horse, pig or human being.

True Knowledge page 86

• Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything is in a constant state of change. page 87
• We have immortal soul and this soul realm of reason.
• Plato also believed that the soul existed before it inhabited the body.

The Philosophic State page 91

• According to Plato, the human body is composed of three parts: the head, the cest, and the abdomen.
• For each of these three parts there is a corresponding faculty of the soul.
• Reason belongs to the head, will belongs to the chest, and appetite belongs to the abdomen.

Body= head, chest and abdomen

Soul= reason, will and appetite

Viture=wisdom, courage and temperance

State=rulers, auxiliaries and laborers

SOPHIE'S WORLD QUESTIONS ARISING

PLATO

(1) What is the ideal Society and why ?

(2) Are Plato's Ideas non physical ? IF so then where do they exist ?

(3) Can we have innate knowledge ?