Plato is considered one of the most prominent philosophers in the history of mankind.As the son of an aristocrat and a disciple of Socrates, he, according to his brother Diogenes Laertius, was able to create a synthesis of the theories of Heraclitus, Pythagoras and Socrates - that is, all those wise men who are proud of ancient Greece.The original teachings of Plato's ideas - is the original and central point of the entire work of the philosopher.During his lifetime he wrote 34 dialogue, and all in some way described or alluded to the theory.It permeated the whole philosophy of Plato.The doctrine of the ideas can be divided into three stages of formation.
first of them - this time, after the death of Socrates.Then the philosopher was trying to explain the theory of his teacher, and in such conversations as "Simpozion" and "Creighton" first appears the concept of the idea of absolute good and beauty.The second stage - the life of Plato in Sicily.There he was influenced by the Pythagorean school and clearly formulated his "objective idealism."And finally, the third stage - the final.Then Plato's doctrine of ideas acquired a complete character and clear structure, was the way we know it today.
As already mentioned dialogue "Simpozion" or "Feast", the philosopher Socrates' speeches as an example describes in detail how the idea (or entity) may be the best beauty and the truth of her incarnations.It was there that he first expresses the idea that the world of things and sensible phenomena - not real.For items that we see, feel, try, we are never the same.They are constantly changing, and dying there.But they exist because all of them have something from the top, the real world.This is another dimension of the inverse images of disembodied.Plato's doctrine of ideas calls them Eidos.
They never change, do not die and are born.They are eternal, and because of the existence of truth.They do not depend on anything, nor of space nor the time, and do not obey anything.These pre-images are both a cause, essence and purpose of things in our world.In addition, they are some samples, which create the appearance of our objects and phenomena.And all beings have a soul in this world seek true existence, where there is neither evil nor death.Because Plato's doctrine of ideas at the same time calls Eidos and goals.
This true peace is opposed to our "bottom" not only as a copy of the original, or the essence of the phenomenon.It also has a moral division - good and evil.After all Eidos also have one source, as well as our stuff has its origins in the ideas.So the prototype, gave birth to other reasons and purposes, is the Absolute.This idea of the good.It alone is the root cause not only good, but also the beauty and harmony.It is faceless and above all, including God.It crowns the pyramid of ideas.God the creator is in Plato's system of personality, a lower start, although it is very close to the main eidos Good.
very idea is eternal and transcendental in relation to the unity of our world.It generates (by God's creator) eidoses kingdom, true being.Ideas create the "world of souls."He is still on in real life, although it takes a lower level.Even lower - an imaginary existence, the world of things.And the latest stage takes the matter, which is essentially a non-being.All the integrity of this system is the existence of a pyramid.This is Plato's theory of ideas outlined in this article.
