Who was Plato and what did he believe?
Plato was deeply affected by Socrates death, and it shaped the course of his philosophy, especially as a striking example between how society really is and the true or ideal society. He set up a school, called the Academy, where philosophy, mathematics and gymnastics were studied. Plato’s main project was the relationship between things that are eternal and immutable and things that flow, both in nature and in morals and society. He believed that everything that belongs to the material world is made of something that can erode, but there is a timeless mold that everything is made from, and the mold is eternal and immutable. Plato’s theory of ideas says that there must be a reality world behind the material world, and he called that the world of ideas. Plato also believed that we can only have true knowledge of things that we can understand with our own reason. Plato believed that reality is divided into two regions – world of senses and the world of ideas. The world of the senses is wh
