Ideal World of Forms:
Basic Idea of World of Forms
- When you’re studying geometry, there is the concept of a perfect triangle; however, this doesn’t exist in real life. Naturally occurring imperfect triangles are flawed representations of that ideal perfect triangle (kind of like Abstraction in concept?).
- A bonsai tree and an apple tree are very different, but you recognize them to be the same — there is a certain tree-ness characteristic that unites them.
- Thus, Plato posits that the world we live in is an imperfect reflection of the true world of forms