In general, we can say that Plato’s philosophy is depicted in Allegory of the Cave. The allegory of the liberation of the slave from darkness, deceit, and untruth and the slave’s hard journey into the light and warmth of the truth has inspired many philosophers and social leaders. (Palmer, p.59) in the allegory of the cave:

Sensible Realm vs. Realm of Forms

The Cave Outside of Cave

Source of error Source of true knowledge and all reality

Ignorance Exists in dependentl

there,” they do not exist in space and time; they lie, as it were, above or beyond space and time. Eternal: as transcendent realities they are not subject to time and therefore not subject to motion or change. Intelligible: as transcendent realities they cannot be grasped by our senses but only by the intellect. Archetypal: they are the models for every kind of thing that does or could exist. Perfect: they include absolutely and perfectly all features of the things of which they are the models. With Plato’s divided line he has what he calls, “essential Form of the Good.” Why must we believe in something even above the Forms, a sort of Form of the Forms? The answer is this: just as the many images, say in a pool of water, must derive their relative being from some one thing above them, the Form table, derive from the Form of the Good. And just as it is above all realities and is their ultimate source, so it is above all knowledge and is its ultimate source. Of course, in order to be the source of knowledge, it itself cannot be a being or a thing known. That is why Plato says of the Good that it is beyond being and knowledge. (Miller, p.85)

Aristotle refutes Plato’s Theory of Forms using the third man argument. The Form of ‘Circularity’ and the physical objects. Aristotle wants to know what ties the coins together with Circularity. There must be some further thing that one has to refer to in order to come up with the first Form of Circularity. According to Aristotle, the first Form shares some one thing in common with the physical objects of coins. So, the first Form is now brought down to a physical reality. No

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