plato - Concepts

Explore concepts tagged with "plato"

Total concepts: 7

Concepts

Mimesis - The philosophical concept of imitation or representation, central to Greek theories of art, reality, and knowledge.
Platonism - The philosophical tradition descending from Plato, centered on the reality of abstract Forms and the primacy of reason.
Platonic Ideal - The perfect, eternal, unchanging archetype of a thing that exists in the abstract realm of Forms.
Allegory of the Cave - Plato's metaphor illustrating the journey from ignorance to enlightenment.
Philosopher King - Plato's ideal ruler who combines philosophical wisdom with political power to govern justly.
Theory of Forms - Plato's metaphysical theory that abstract, perfect Forms are the true reality of which physical things are mere copies.
Anamnesis - Plato's theory that learning is the soul's recollection of eternal truths it knew before birth.