Plato Cave

The main thesis of Plato’s Theory of Forms, or Theory of Ideas is that objects can be seen but not thought over, ideas, on the contrary, can be thought over but not seen (Plato 314). To explain this theory, the philosopher used a short story known as the Analogy of the Cave. For Plato, cave is a sensual world where people live as prisoners, believing that they get to know true reality through the senses. However, such a life is merely an illusion whereas only vague shadows reach them from the Realm of Ideas. Philosophers can get a more complicated picture of the world of forms, constantly asking themselves and seeking answers for questions. However, it is meaningless to share the gained knowledge with the crowd, which is unable to break the illusions of the everyday perception. …show more content…
The first objection was to indicate that this theory did not and could not give an explanation of the important properties of material objects, such as emergence, movement, change, and death. Since ideas, according to Plato, make special, separate, and closed world of entities, Plato was unable to provide the reason for continuous movement and changes in the physical world. The second Aristotle’s objection, known as the Third Man Argument, consisted in the fact that, according to Plato, in addition to sensual man and the Idea of man one must admit the existence of another towering them Idea of man. This Idea, which covers the common between the first Idea and a sensual man, is the Third