Plato on reality and the soul

Plato on reality and the soul

Socrates believed that the soul is pure and the body is corrupted , where wisdom is accounted for the soul and needs , thus the materialistic and carnal desires are to the body . Plato 's Phaedo discussed in the world of forms . Any entity or object has a quality or feature or multiple properties . And these properties are prior conditioned to the soul

Plato 's metaphysics can be drawn primarily from the influence of his teachers Paramenides , Heraclitus , and of course Socrates . First , the concept from Parmenides ' belief

that there could be only one being , and this is a never changing entity . It has a static quality . This is where Plato derived his concept of the world of forms . It is a different concept in the material world wherein it is an always changing world Change can be accounted as the only thing common and the only thing consistent as Heraclitus described the notion of flux

Academicians account that most of Plato 's thinking was influenced by Socrates . Socrates however was not at all articulate in conveying a Metaphysical or Epistemological discussion rather , he conveyed more ethical notions . For Socrates , The idea is for one to take care of the soul so one can be happy , or attain the truth . This is especially true and evident in the Phaedo where Plato accounts the last hours before Socrates separated his soul from the body

Plato 's Metaphysics can be analyzed as a completion of that of Socrates...