POLS 2900 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Good Life, Intellectual Virtue, Degenerate Bilinear Form

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Ship analogy: the forms ( eg. the perfect square, the divided line, the good ( analogy of the sun, the cave analogy for education, moral reform, duty to rule, how just/happy. The just soul is not only the better human soul but the most real and true human soul so you are closer to being a human being. People always try to out do each other and gain wealth part of human nature- Plato justice ruled by reason is not a constraint of nature but is demaded by human nature . Plato believes in the existence of absolute moral truths - they are as much a part of nature as physical objects around us. Very few ppl can understand the ideas ( the forms) exist in reality but different level of reality in which lots of ppl cannot access and only a few ppl can access it after years of training and education.