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For Plato, there were two worlds, not one – the sensible world of changing physical things that we apprehend by means of our senses and the world of intelligible objects that we apprehend by means of our intellects or minds…the world of ideas had for him a superior grade of reality. The physical things that we perceive through our senses come into being and pass away … continually in flux, changing in one way or another. They have no permanence … The world of changing physical things is thus for Plato a mere shadow of the much more real world of ideas. When we pass from the realm of sense experience to the realm of thought, we ascend to a higher reality…Share
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