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WORLD OF FORMS, AND PARTICULARS PHAEDO BY PLATO

World of Forms, and Particulars Phaedo, written by Plato, is intended to be an account of
the final moments of Socrates' life as he is preparing to be put to death for poisoning
the minds of the youth of Athens. Socrates proceeds to explain to his followers that
there is a soul and his reasoning. Plato employed the conversational structure as a way
of presenting dialogue. He used Socrates in this pattern of argumentation to examine each
issue from several perspectives using speculation from Socrates' peers. This explored the
interplay of alternative ideas while subjecting all of them to evaluation by reason.
Plato incorporates his theory of Forms in which the World of Forms and the World of
Particulars categorizes abstract and concrete images. In order to contemplate the World
of Forms and Particulars, a foundation for the reasoning of the soul and its specifics
must be established. Plato's idea of the soul as a separate entity parallels that of the
Judeo-Christian beliefs today. He taught of the divinity of the soul and the immortality.
Plato believed the pure soul goes on and the evil soul stays doomed to wander. He
believed that those virtuous in life would be rewarded with peace and knowledge. The idea
of reincarnation was justified in the principle of recollection, 2 this being the
acquirement of knowledge at the moment of birth. This awareness at birth includes two
types of