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This 4 page paper gives an overview of the various Forms which Plato believes lies at the foundation of all knoweldge. Examples given. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is still controversy surrounding how one acquires knowledge, and having acquired this knowledge, how best to apply it to ones community or country. Platos Forms were his answer to that
which is verifiable or provable about knowledge. Each person, Plato believed, was born with an all knowing soul that accumulated information about
things via past lives. The new life, then is spent recollecting the information which the soul already intrinsically knows. In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of
his theory by having Socrates debate them. According to Plato, ideas are the stable object of knowledge. These ideas are accessible by the average human being using the tool called
thought. The senses have very little to do with this process. What one can infer from the writings of Plato is that he was convinced that sensory perception gave
a fairly inaccurate picture of the real world; a poor copy at best. The real world, if it is to be known completely, has to be understood with pure knowledge.
And, interestingly enough, he stated that this type of knowledge is not the kind that can be distilled from teacher to pupil, but rather it was of the variety that
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce the reality for themselves.
Plato stipulates that Forms, in their purest sense exist whether we believe them to exist or not. Forms are therefore, universal. Having tested the theory,
then, results in knowledge, Plato states, because reason, rather than sensory experiences have been involved. Therefore, according to Platos thought process, if reason is used correctly, it will result in
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