... experience to be real things, as they are constantly evolving. However, Plato's theory is not one easy to accept and the cynicism of today's society requires proof or a convincing argument. Everyone recognizes Plato's greatness as an intense and philosophical thinker but, cracks in his theories have been noticed, markedly by his own tutee; another famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle. With a lack of both proof and argument is also accompanied by no instruction of how to acquire this eternal knowledge, besides ignoring all physical needs and constant meditation! Concepts of perfect equality, circularity and even ideal goodness, are reasonable suggestions because we can relate these to mathematical concepts, but Plato unexplainably believes these things to be independent existences of reality. He assumes this higher level of reality to be self-evident and unquestionable. The extent to which Plato believed there to be an 'ideal' form of everything on Earth remains ...

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