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Plato

Plato, an Athenian Greek of an upper class aristocratic family, and an active philosopher in the first half of the fourth century B.C. born in 427 B.C. Plato lived to be eighty years old and a very devoted friend and follower of Socrates, after his execution. Plato was well known for his theory of the form, participation with Christianity, the doctrine of Recollection immortality of the soul, and a school he founded called ACADEMY where he taught Mathematics and Philosophy until his death.

Plato, being a devoted follower of Socrates did not believe that the society had a full understanding of who Socrates really was, and the knowledge he was trying to teach the world. Having this belief Plato felt that it was his responsibility to inform the world of this knowledge, with his theory of the form. The notion of the form is articulate with the aid of


Plato also believed in the Doctrine of Recollection, which is the Being, Soul, and Absolute Knowledge. Plato describes the Recollection a cycle. In this cycle there was always life and death, allowing no room for one without the other. Plato believes that a human being has life but after death, their soul is what carries on to search for Absolute Knowledge, allowing the cycle to continue which relates to the present Christian religion.

Plato believed that the form came in three phases, Idea, Morph, and Eidos. Idea (ideen) was what Plato called the first glimpse of something. Morph, was the form in the since of a shape. Eidos, was the perfect participial indicating a transcendental object, or the possibility if the condition of an absolute object. These three phases Plato believes transforms into two realms, the realm of being and the realm of

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