Similarities Between Plato Heracleitus And Parmenides

Plato, Heracleitus and Parmenides all had their own metaphysical views each with their own sets of similarities and differences. Plato's views were that there were two worlds the physical and the spiritual. According to him, the physical world was not the real world and that physical things were only shadows of their ideal form. An example of this that he gave was the cave allegory. Where the prisoners are left in a cave staring at their shadows and those of the outside world. One breaks free to see the outside world and tells them there's more to the shadows that they've been seeing through the cave, but no one believes him because they have only seen shadows their entire life. Heracleitus, on the other hand, believed the world and