"The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests," wrote George Santayana. In this episode Fuad leads us in a discussion of how Plato’s theory of forms redefined how philosophers think about the world they are contemplating.

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Tags:  Plato,  Greek philosophy,  Theory of forms,  Ideal,  Nature,  World,  Reality,  Idealist,  Idealism,  Perfect,  Imperfect,  Problem,  Transcend,  Night School