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This 5 page report discusses Plato's 'Republic' and what Socrates explains is the real essence of things or the real essence of the world is the realm of ideals. The realm of ideals is the real world, unchanging and eternal, which can be known by thought. Things, in and of themselves, exist only in terms of having been perceived. The physical world or the 'world of things,' the 'cosmos,' is the world of becoming. It is grasped by opinion and sense-perception. No secondary sources.
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art. In fact, Plato was thoroughly convinced that both philosophy and the "royal art" (politics) are necessary for happiness therefore illustrating that philosophy alone is not sufficient for happiness.
Plato looked at the world and saw nothing but change; he wondered how it was possible to know anything at all when everything is in motion and change. Plato resolved
that problem through presuming an unchanging world of intelligible Forms or Ideas of which the world is nothing but a less-than-perfect copy. The capacity to understand the
world outside the world of the individual and his/her internal world includes the ability to interpret, characterize, and associate what seems to be singular things or, at least, singular
groups of things. Understanding the external world is the method of creating interconnections between such apparently singular and distinctly separate things. Those interconnections are what allow for the creation
of meaning and understanding of things. Things, in and of themselves, exist only in terms of having been perceived. The physical world or the "world of things,"
the "cosmos," is the world of becoming. It is grasped by opinion and sense-perception. In fact, the cosmos itself came into being, created through using the world of Forms
as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things Platos vision of
reality and his definition of the "true" essence of things presents the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently
existing, eternal, and unchanging entities called "forms" or "ideas." Ordinary objects are what they are and have the features they do in virtue of their relation to or "participation in"
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