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The Sensible World (World of Appearances): This is the physical world we experience with our senses. It's the world of particular sunsets, specific songs, and individual dancers. For Plato, this world is imperfect, changing, and temporary. Everything in it is a mere copy or imitation of something more real. It can only give us opinions, not true knowledge.

The Intelligible World (World of Forms/Ideas): This is a transcendent, non-physical realm, accessible only through intellect and reason. It's the home of the Forms (also called Ideas), which are:

Perfect and Ideal: They are the ultimate blueprints or archetypes.
Eternal and Unchanging: They exist outside of time and space, forever the same.
Universal: There's only one Form of Beauty, one Form of Justice, one Form of Circle, etc., no matter how many particular instances exist in the sensible world.
More Real: For Plato, the Forms are more real than the physical objects that merely participate in or imitate them. A perfect circle (the Form) is more real than any imperfectly drawn circle on a blackboard.

What if the world you see isn't the real world?
Plato, the OG philosopher, dared us to consider this mind-bending possibility with his Theory of Forms.

He proposed a hidden realm, a "perfect blueprint" dimension, where the true essence of everything exists:
The ideal "chair" (the Form of Chairness)
The absolute "good" (the Form of the Good)
Pure, unadulterated "beauty" (the Form of Beauty)

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What are the most influential books that explore the historical and theological identity of Jesus, and how do they shape our understanding of who he really was?

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God is the unmoved causer, that's much better than all what kant has to offer

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