Plato was born in Athens in a period of peace and tranquility in Greece in this little period of peace the people didn’t have many preoccupations and can focus in things like Philosophy. Plato was a follower of Socrates he love his ideas because this he write the Socrates discourses.
When Socrates die Plato decide to be like his master, he want to exposes their ideas like Socrates but Plato had a different focus he start to things in the reality and what is the truth. He think that the universe that we see doesn’t are the real universe and he explain this idea wit the allegory of the cave.
The allegory of the cava said that all the people are in a cave and only see the wall in the back part of the cave, in this wall are only shadows or reflection of the things that are outside the cave, and outside of the cave is the reality that is the perfect word the word of the ideas the Hipper Uranus.
Plato also explain the difference between the body (Eros) and the mind and the soul (Psyche), the Body are the part of a person that are in the universe that we can see and are only a reflection of the reality ant the mind and the soul that are that can perceive the ideas that are in the Hipper Uranus because the soul and the mind are part of the reality.
this commentary is very interesting i understood easily all of your points
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