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Episode #004 ... Plato

Philosophize This!

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Learning Is Just a Process of Recollection

Plato thought that human beings could be broken down into two separate parts, the body and the soul. The is responsible for the inferior senses, but has the ability to reason. And we used the soul to perceive the world of forms. He was credited with laying the groundwork for seventeenth century rationalism. But his thinking was just like there's an ideal form of beauty or justice - plato says there's also an ideal government.

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