Terms and Concepts to Remember about Plato
This list is based on pages 78-93 of Sophie's World and
pages 40-51 of Does the Center Hold? as well as
the class discussions related to Plato.

From Sophie's World (pages 78-93)
  • Plato (428-347 BCE)
  • Socrates' Apology
  • The Academy
  • Sophists
  • Forms/Ideas
  • Plato's view of the material world
  • World of Ideas
  • Plato's view of the source of true knowledge
  • Reason
  • Sense perception
  • Body/Soul dualism
  • Eros
  • Myth of the Cave
  • The Republic
  • Plato's view of parts of the body and soul and the corresponding virtues and levels of society (the state)
  • Plato's view of women
From Does the Center Hold? (pages 40-51)
  • Epistemology
  • Rationalism
  • Plato's view of the Requirements for True Knowledge (What is necesary for "X knows Y" to be true?)
  • Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
  • Logos
  • The Simile of the Line (Could you draw it and explain it?)
  • Ontology
  • Images
  • Sensible Objects
  • Concepts
  • Forms (Ideas)
  • Meno's Paradox
  • Innate Ideas