If the physical world is constantly changing and merely a reflection of the Forms, can we gain genuine, unchanging knowledge from it? Or must true knowledge (episteme) be solely of the Forms, which are the stable causes of all things?

How does the Allegory of the Cave relate to modern society?

>>24476359
You are not smart enough to grasp plato, you know it deep inside

>>24467087
Wrong

If, according to Plato’s Theory of Forms, every perfect Form (such as Beauty, Justice, or Goodness) exists beyond the physical world, could the Form of the Good be understood as equivalent to God? And if so, what implications would that have for the nature of divine perfection, creation, and the human soul’s quest for truth?