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What filled the relationship not who may be a better regard to start from IMO.
We already covered the why and when the thought was carried forward to the Neo Platonic writings.
A version of this question actually occurs in the Meno, where Meno asks Socrates:
How will you look for it [i.e. virtue], Socrates, when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim to search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet with it, how will you know that this is the thing that you did not know?
This answer given to this in the Meno, of course, is just the theory of Recollection, that we already know what virtue is.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY PLATO'S THEORY OF FORMS: How can we use terms like "justice," "goodness," etc. to judge and condemn every actual instance of justice or goodness in the world? What are we talking about if it is not anything that we can actually see or point to in the world?
This is still a very serious issue in the 20th century, often called (after David Hume) the problem of "Is and Ought" (or "Fact and Value") since what we see in the world merely "is," yet when we talk about matters of value, we mean what "ought" to be. What "ought" to be doesn't always, or often (or ever), seem to exist, so how do we know about it?
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 540#p25472
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato
Did Plato enjoy the cathartic release of rhetorical devices of sweeping the floor of his Acedemy or clearly understand you probably shouldn't be
running one if you will not do it. Since his subjects where chained to the proverbial wall why would he even pretend to care. Later he noted looking
through the bars of a cell to consider Socrates nature of thinking beings.
No thinking man is surprised to the communicated silent universals of political realism as we noted before.
It was a path chosen to deny facts which gravitated Socrates humilty to confront avarice which positioned Plato to unwarranted indulgences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
Adjectives are just messengers being shot.
My experience is even in wheelchairs, they are still arrogant.
It is inherent in the species.
