Plato Flashcards
Platos republic
A utopia that would not have fell due to the phelopenisen war
Epistemology
What we know and how we can know it (rationalism and empiricism)
Platos republics three classes
Ruler-philosopher king who leads the way to greatness
Protectors-soldiers who all live together
Producers-cobbler, farmer
Just state
Everyone does what they are best at
Just individual
When the rational part controls the irrational part
Relativism
No objective, absolute, or final truth
Theory of the forms
No agreed upon, shared truth
The basis for knowledge
Constant, reliable, stable, one, eternal, perfect, Unchanging
Cannot be in flux
Particular things in the world
Many in number
Never remain exactly the same
Come into and go out of existence
Forms
True knowledge
The realm of forms and all knowledge
Where the souls exist
Knowledge
The recollection of harmony to find reality
How to gain knowledge
Get a good teacher to bring knowledge out of you
Highest form of reality
Form of the good
Source of all knowing
Theory of the forms
Material world is a shadow of the world of the forms which is where the philosophers live
