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Episode #004 ... Plato

Philosophize This!

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Untie Yourself and See the Truth for What It Really Is

Plato thought everything on earth that we had the ability to perceive with our senses had a corresponding form. The only true way to know what something is is to untie yourself and turn around and see them for what they actually are, he says. He thinks it was a philosopher's job to identify as many of these forms as they can in life. But there's one glaring problem with his theory: How can we even know what the ideal form of anything is?

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