but rather in the immaterial world of
forms, so prior to being (re)incarnated in an ugly, corruptible, mortal body,
here on earth, our souls “lived” in the world of forms, where it knew (or
saw) all the eternal truths (e.g., good, true, beauty, virtue, the perfection
of geometry and mathematics, etc.) which it has forgotten, now, that it is
imprisoned in a mortal body in the world of sense.
(3) For Plato, therefore, philosophy is the practice of contemplation and
asking questions as a way of…
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