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Lesson 11 Mini Assignment

Lesson 11 Mini Assignment

Q Reality is in the realm of the Forms. But how can we reach this realm, as humans? Plato gave a lot of thought to that. This week, we learn how conversion, recollection, and love can be means to reach truth. At the end of this journey: the idea of the Good awaits, like the sun that sustains all life and enlightens all things... Questions that get discussed this week include: • Is knowledge already there present, in us? How can we explain that we know some things without having 'learned' them? • In what way can love be a means to reach wisdom? • Why is the Good the 'highest' Form according to Plato? • Could the final end of wisdom consists in an experience of perfect unity with the world?

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One of the most famous works of Plato, which can be attributed to the lessons he learned from Socrates, was The Republic. It is also considered to be the first book on government or political science and uses the Platonic method to reason through ideas on justice. According to me, the educational system that he mentioned in his Republic, was designed to maximize each individual's potential and was supposed to be challenging, but also fun and sporty in addition to it. When envisaged in its ideal form, I think his Utopia to be beautiful as here human activities are supposed to be guided by enlightened individuals who are unconcerned with earthly demands and desires (Plato).