Plato's Ideas Retrieval Practice

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  1. 2. According to Plato’s analogy, each of us is one of these, at the mercy of our deceiving senses (8 letters).
  2. 4. One weakness of Plato’s theory of Forms – if you can have a Form of a Form, why can’t you have a Form of a Form of a Form. It could therefore go on backwards forever which is called infinite ? (7 letters).
  3. 5. Bertrand Russell used this animal as an example when trying to explain how Plato’s theory of Forms works. (3 letters).
  4. 6. Forms of ideas such as Justice and Beauty are high in the hierarchy of forms and are known as ? (two words 9+9 letters).
  5. 7. Plato’s ideas that the truth is fixed and never varies mean that ethically speaking he is one of these (10 letters).
  6. 8. Plato founded a school (which was more like a university) and was called the what? (7 letters).
  7. 9. Plato was deeply affected by his death and used him as a key character in his dialogues (8 letters).
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  1. 1. Plato's creator 'god' - responsible for creating this imperfect world, but who does not interact with it (8 letters).
  2. 2. These participate in the Forms, enabling us to recognise a horse as a horse for example (11 letters).
  3. 3. We are able to ? the Forms as our immortal souls experienced them before being incarnated in our bodies (9 letters).