Plato's Justification Of Metaphysics

Plato was one of the illustrious students of Socrates and as a sophist he wrote beautiful dialogues that were and have been admired by many scholars and people of all works of life. As a matter of fact, Platonic dialogues express his insightful philosophical views and teachings on different doctrines and concepts. It is quite evident from Plato’s writings that he presented his arguments in a conversational structure, thus enabling him to examine each concept and doctrine from different angles or sides. As scholars, Plato’s arguments offer us the opportunity of evaluating each concept and idea in a systematic manner which in other words can be termed as reasoning. This part of the essay examines Plato’s justification of his distinction between …show more content…
This means that, metaphysics uses pure speculation as they try to understand various concepts and ideas in life. Some of the questions asked by individuals in this field include: what is time? What is in space? Do human beings have freedom of deciding their fate? Although metaphysics and epistemology have been two independent fields, they belong to the larger field of philosophy in that in order for philosophers to arrive to his arguments about our human nature and possibly about the whole question of nature then they should utilize or they should be equipped with epistemological and metaphysical knowledge and skills. It is quite evident that, philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics’ try to answer questions about the universe, reasoning, knowledge, justice, beauty, ethics among other …show more content…
Be answered apart from considering the questions, what is the structure of the mind? And what is the most real in the universe? In my opinion for one to get the answer for the question what can we know? Then he/she should ask the other questions such as what is the structure of the mind? And the question what is the most real in the universe? All these three questions are philosophical in nature however the last two are epistemological and metaphysical in nature. Therefore as mentioned as earlier philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics share the same ground or platform then these questions should be answered adequately