Born between 428 and 423 BC
Died between 347 - 348 BC

# Theory of Forms
our world is only an image of the world of unchageable forms(archetypes)

argument proheminent in dialog on the Republic, Phaedo, and Timaeus

Theory is a solution to the problems of universals


allegory of the cave found in Republic






# platonism already had/was develloping this feminine elements of gnosticism "My body is a prison"
Porphyry even wrote he was ashamed of having a body

Against Those that Affirm the Creator of the Cosmos and the Cosmos Itself to be Evil" is a philosophical treatise by Plotinus