PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Simile
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The forms is the most abstract of all these disciplines b/c it is the foundation and most of us are not built to understand what the forms are itself. Plato gives us images and simile to suggest what it is like to help us gain knowledge of things. For example the ship with the concept of how philosophers are the only ones that know how to govern the ship b/c they understand the grasp of how things really are. Imagination is the lowest level in the line for example in soap operas, people think that watching the imitation of what is going on in tv is the way of life. Interacting w the real world people then get beliefs and opinion of how things are in the world. To understand why people act the way they do, human psychology is needed.
