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** speech@Nestor G Philosophers and Tragedians: Plato **

He wrote many books on how to live a good life. It is a discussion of the virtues of justice, courage, wisdom, and moderation Speech:

__ His early life: __ He was born in 428 BC. Scholars believe he was born in Athens. He had 2 brothers and a sister. He was named Aristotle after his grandfather but he was involved in wrestling and his coach gave him the nick name of platon (Broad) because his big shoulders. He was taught by the best teachers of his time giving him the best educations above all. __ Theory of forms: __ States that what we see and value in our world is not real. its only a shadow of the real world. He talked about how he would solve the problems of the universe and distorting of the things around us. He questions whether universals exist. Universals is what distinguishes us from male or female, gas or liquid and shape or solid. __ Platonic epistemology:  __ States that learning is deep in the soul. He tells the difference between what we know of as knowledge and what our mere opinion is. He uses the sun as a metaphor as a source of “ intellectual illumination”. What is reality and nature he asks? __ The divided line: __ He teaches his 4 levels of existence and how we know what really exists. The line has two parts that represent the intelligible world and the smaller visible world. The visible world is what we see and know, Which is so small and little. __ Allegory of the cave: __ This is platos most recognized and famous work. Prisoners in a cave are shown shadows of people and animals. They can only view the showdowns casted from the fire in front of them. When the prisoner is freed he learns that the reality he believes in was only a shadow and not reality. Then when he walks out of the cave and sees that they are real and the puppeteers were just imitators. He slowly replaces opinion with knowledge.