Unlike the natural philosophers preced him Plato describes the world cognitively. He proposes  Plato's ideas are still the bedrock of psychology today. 

When we think psychology our mind usually gravitates to people like Freud or Yung, but all modern ideas can be traced back to Plato. He wa...

We have all sorts of divisions we operate with:

• short term interests (governed by pain& pleasure) vs our long term desires
• subconscious vs the conscious mind,
• reptilian vs the mammal brain
• etc...

All of these started with Plato. He looked into d...

Is Plato's most famous parable -  about getting more connected with reality: Imagine people are chained sitting in a cave looking at a wall on which they see nothing but the shadows of real things behind their backs. One of the people breaks free and experience true reality. But he can not ex...