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The Question of What Truly Is Plato’s theory of Forms begins from a simple but decisive question: what is truly real? The sensible world appears before us as a world of bodies, colors, sounds, movements and changing things. Everything in this world comes into being, changes, decays and disappears. A beautiful face grows old, a just action may be mixed with injustice, a circle drawn by hand is never perfectly circular. The visible world is therefore unstable. It gives us appearances, but it does not give us the unchanging ground of what things are. For Plato, philosophy begins when the…

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