Plato's Allegory of the Cave is closely connected with the study of forms postulated by Socrates. Man enters the domain of forms through the psyche, through reason, given the Platonic hypothesis of the subdivisions of the human soul. This allows them to achieve a perpetual world, resistant to the agonies and progressions of the material world. By segregating ourselves from the material world and our figures and creating our capacity to care about forms, we discover a quality that is not open to change or collapse. This includes the initial, moral problem. Similarly, partial presence in two domains solves the problem of perpetual quality and change. We recognize an alternative world, with different articles, through our psyche than we do through faculties. It is the material world, recognized through the faculties, that is evolving. It is the dominion of forms, recognized through the brain, which is perpetual and immutable. It is this world that is all the more true; the universe of progress is only an imperfect image of this world. The shapes: a shape is a ...
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