In the Republic book VI and VII, Socrates argue about in the ideal city, a real Philosopher with good understanding of forms will promote a balanced cooperation with all the citizens in the city. The Philosopher Socrates mention actually is the king, and the king has to be intelligent, trustworthy and willing to lead an easy life, but Socrates point out that the king’s quality are not come naturally, it is come from the education and the study of the good. Just like Socrates sun and good analogy, visible objects got be lighted in order to be seen, another words is just as the sun make the natural world visible, so the form of the good make the world intelligible. Also the sun is the cause of the life on earth, form of the goods is the cause
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This analogy not only promote the psyche theory, but also gives metaphysical and epistemological opinion. The imagination represents the shadows and any physical things reflections; belief represents the natural world or the physical things themselves; thought represents the mathematical object, such as geometry and numbers; understanding represents the form, good or higher order of the knowledge. Socrates separates the four segments into two parts, one of them is the visible or sensible world with imagination and belief, another one of them is the intelligible world with thought and understanding. The visible world is knowing with the humans senses, like when you at the library and understand the environment around you by feeling, seeing, hearing and smelling. Socrates says the line of the visible world divided into two different condition of mind. Socrates Describes that one part is made by the reflection and shadows, and in a reflection that you can only see a form of an object, just like when u look in to the water and only sees an unclear image of your face, so this form of information is less reliable. also the visible worlds reality can corresponds to opinion, empirical truth and become.
On the other hand, the intelligible world is not focused on the human senses, it is focused on the knowledge we learned and ability for higher reasoning, in another word is asking what is the truth, for example of when you sit in the class and try to solve a mathematical problem, Socrates used the geometry as a great example. The intelligible worlds reality corresponds to knowledge, necessary truth and
This analogy not only promote the psyche theory, but also gives metaphysical and epistemological opinion. The imagination represents the shadows and any physical things reflections; belief represents the natural world or the physical things themselves; thought represents the mathematical object, such as geometry and numbers; understanding represents the form, good or higher order of the knowledge. Socrates separates the four segments into two parts, one of them is the visible or sensible world with imagination and belief, another one of them is the intelligible world with thought and understanding. The visible world is knowing with the humans senses, like when you at the library and understand the environment around you by feeling, seeing, hearing and smelling. Socrates says the line of the visible world divided into two different condition of mind. Socrates Describes that one part is made by the reflection and shadows, and in a reflection that you can only see a form of an object, just like when u look in to the water and only sees an unclear image of your face, so this form of information is less reliable. also the visible worlds reality can corresponds to opinion, empirical truth and become.
On the other hand, the intelligible world is not focused on the human senses, it is focused on the knowledge we learned and ability for higher reasoning, in another word is asking what is the truth, for example of when you sit in the class and try to solve a mathematical problem, Socrates used the geometry as a great example. The intelligible worlds reality corresponds to knowledge, necessary truth and