In Book VI of The Republic, Plato prefaces his Allegory of the Cave with his concept of the “theory of the forms.” This view asserts that each thing existing on earth has a corresponding “form,” or perfect idea in the Form of the Good, the highest form of all. Those things existing on earth are part of the lower material realms, known as the Form of Intelligible and the Form of the Visible. Socrates, who is used as the main character in the dialogues of Plato’s Republic. Socrates cannot is unable to find a succinct definition of the highest good, so we provides an analogy which stretches into the Allegory of the Cave found in Book VII. The metaphor begins with the sun, which illuminates the Visible Realm, just as the Good illuminates the intelligible realm. The sun is the source of visibility, sight, and is responsible all life, and thus the existence of the intelligible realm. Likewise, the Good is the source of intelligibility, capacity for knowledge, and is responsible for the Forms,
In Book VI of The Republic, Plato prefaces his Allegory of the Cave with his concept of the “theory of the forms.” This view asserts that each thing existing on earth has a corresponding “form,” or perfect idea in the Form of the Good, the highest form of all. Those things existing on earth are part of the lower material realms, known as the Form of Intelligible and the Form of the Visible. Socrates, who is used as the main character in the dialogues of Plato’s Republic. Socrates cannot is unable to find a succinct definition of the highest good, so we provides an analogy which stretches into the Allegory of the Cave found in Book VII. The metaphor begins with the sun, which illuminates the Visible Realm, just as the Good illuminates the intelligible realm. The sun is the source of visibility, sight, and is responsible all life, and thus the existence of the intelligible realm. Likewise, the Good is the source of intelligibility, capacity for knowledge, and is responsible for the Forms,