PLATO (429-347 B.

C)
 INTRODUCTION
 Born in the year 429 B.C in Athens.
 Plato’s Birth name was Aristocles (not to be confused with
Aristotle).
 He was the student of Great philosopher Socrates.
 Founder of the school name Academia.
 Famous book name The Republic.
 First philosopher to write the philosophy.
 Plato’s Questions

 What is justice ?
 What is ideal state ?
 What does it mean to be a good person ?
 Answers
 According to Plato justice is the quality of individual
and the individual mind. It can be understood by
studying the mind of man.
 Plato based his ideal state on three major classes :
1. The ruling class highly educated in philosophy is to
administer the state.
2. A military class having courage and physical strength
is to defend the state.
3. The professional class needed to be ruled and to deal
with common affairs of the state.
ANSWER
 METAPHYSICS OF PLATO

 Every thing is the shadow of its real form.

 The ideas are the most accurate reality and the
marvel of the physical world are an imperfect
reverberation of ideal perfect model that exist
outside of reality.
 EPISTEMOLOGY OF PLATO

 Plato believed that genuine knowledge could

gained from the wider world.
 It can only be possible by learning through
examination instead of perception.
 AXIOLOGY OF PLATO
 Plato argued powerfully in favor of the
objectivity of values such as truth, good and
beauty with idea of good regarded as supreme.
 THE ALEGORY OF CAVE
 In the “Allegory Of Cave” Plato describes:
 People are living from childhood in the cave and
can only see in front of them.
 We human tend not to understand the true reality
of our world. We think that we understand what
we are looking but we really just perceive
shadows of the true form of the things that make
up the world.
 In the “Allegory Of The Cave” prisoner are
chained in such a way that they can only see the
back wall of their cave they see the shadow of the
objects because they don’t know the object they
think the shadow of the object on the wall are real.
 Plato says that unless we become educated we are
like the prisoners in the cave we think that things
we see are real however we are incorrect because
the things we perceive are merely shadows.
 PLATONIC LOVE
 Platonic love is rising through levels of closeness
to wisdom and true beauty from carnal attraction
to individual bodies to attraction to souls and
eventually union with the truth.