Plato

Question 1

When did Plato live?

Answer 1

427-347 BCE

Question 2

How did Plato write?

Answer 2

In dialogues

Question 3

Who was Plato’s teacher

Answer 3

Socrates

Question 4

What does plato argue about the form?

Answer 4

He argued that there has to be another place where everything is perfect

Question 5

Forms are only presentable in the eyes of who?

Answer 5

Philosophers

Question 6

What does plato think about the soul?

Answer 6

Plato reasoned that because we have a concept of the ideal form without having experienced them (e.g justice and beauty) our souls must have known the form before us.

Question 7

The material world is the shadow of what

Answer 7

The realm of the forms

Question 8

Where do our immortal soul belong in

Answer 8

The world of the form

Question 9

What does Plato think the reason why children have knowledge on justice and beauty?

Answer 9

Because the soul when it is in the body has a vague recollections of the world of the forms

Question 10

What is the most important and fundamental form?

Answer 10

The form of the Good

Question 11

Where do all form come from

Answer 11

The form of the Good

Question 12

How is the form of the good superior to other forms?

Answer 12

The form of the good is superior to all other forms in terms of reality and perfection.

Question 13

what do the chained prisoners represent in the analogy of the cave?

Answer 13

Represent Mankind and how they have been chained up and trapped in the superficial world of desire and temptation. And how we are oblivious to true knowledge

Question 14

What does the shadow play represent in the analogy of the cave?

Answer 14

They are created by real objects. The prisoner only has knowledge of the shadows so that is what they know is true. Like how is humans only know what is true in the material world and not in the world of the forms.

Question 15

what does the cave represent in the analogy of the cave?

Answer 15

It symbolises our imprisoned immortal soul.

Question 16

what does the journey outside the cave symbolises?

Answer 16

It describes the journey of the soul to be enlightened with true knowledge. Just as the prisoner is getting comfortable with the sun ray, so is our journey from comfortable ignorance to true wisdom

Question 17

What does the sun represent?

Answer 17

It represents the form of the good, which for plato is the truth and true knowledge.

Question 18

What does the outside world represent in the analogy of the cave?

Answer 18

When the prisoner came out of the cave they were blinded by the sun, but soon got used to it. This shows that true knowledge can be scary at first but once you get used to it there is nothing to be scared of.

Question 19

What does The return of the prisoners represent in the analogy of the cave?

Answer 19

The prisoner who escaped went back to the cave to tell the others about what they witnessed. The prisoners refused to believe what he said and mocked gim

Question 20

What is the meaning of the analogy of the cave?

Answer 20

Plato uses this analogy to show that the prisoner represent mankind trapped within a world of flawed sensory knowledge and we need to be set free to be able to see the form clearly.

Question 21

Why is the sun important in the analogy of the cave?

Answer 21

The sun is important because the light it shines guided a path to true knowledge.

Question 22

What book is the theory of the form in?

Answer 22

Book VII of the republic