Reflection 13

Basically Plato impact is idealism to him is a simple copy of a super sensible spiritual nature. He feels that the first and most important principle of all things is one being of human worth called god. The world is essentially dependent on god. We believe that god is the creator of the world. Basically, with god all things are possible. In the case of reminiscence, the mind Plato states that our souls are immortal souls. Plato states that before we were born our souls are purely formed. At birth, we tend to forget knowledge and ideas. Plato states that we receive our knowledge through sense impressions. He feels that when the mother has the child, the child head is deformed because it is forced to squeeze through the mothers’ vagina. This has an effect on our brains which causes us to lack in knowledge. Plato aimed that the theory of reminiscence should lead a person to be virtuous and happy. To be virtuous and know what the absolute form of good is, each person needs to have a soul, which has access to the good in before existence. You cannot be virtuous through experience, or others teaching you. You have to experience it yourself in your own soul. As for the soul, his style of thinking he uses thinking and math learning to achieve the philosophical truth; he uses written dialogues. Dialectic is a type of method Plato uses to question and reason. To know the absolute truth we have to use questioning and reasoning. Reasoning is what killed god. You must state the facts which are characteristics of perfect knowledge. Opinions is not finding the knowledge of truth and being a virtuous person. We acquire the facts through our senses. The five cardinal virtues that Plato touches basic detailing on are wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and prudence. Plato taught that the truth is in all things and we should search because it is knowing the truth and being a virtuous person. The truth and realness are characteristics of moral excellence based on Plato. To conclude, in order to be a virtuous person we must question and reason the absolute truth because based on Plato, opinion is not accepted in life.