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Theory of Forms, the philosopher-king, The Republic
Plato held that the physical world we perceive through the senses is only an imperfect shadow of a higher, unchanging realm of perfect Forms (or Ideas), and that reason, not sense experience, is the path to true knowledge of them. In politics he argued the ideal state should be ruled by philosopher-kings, whose training in reason and the Form of the Good equips them to rule justly.
Athenian aristocrat who studied under Socrates and later founded the Academy, one of the first institutions of higher learning in the Western world; taught Aristotle.