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Plato believes that those who waste their living chasing money, fame, luxuries, and other worldly possessions were merely wasting their life on this earth. He claimed that ultimate happiness was growing your knowledge of how the world works, especially the knowledge of the forms, he claimed that once you have mastered such knowledge you will achieve fulfillment.

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Socrates’s dying words to his students call for an offering to Asklepios, the physician hero and demi-god newly introduced to Athens during the time of Socrates. Multiple literary sources confirm that Socrates was prosecuted for not believing in the state’s gods, introducing new gods, and corrupting the youth with these ideas.

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The allegory discusses the differences between habit versus truth, shadow versus darkness. It further discusses whether we are better off not knowing the truth or knowing that we do not know the truth.

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In historical scholarship, the Socratic problem (or Socratic question) concerns attempts at reconstructing a historical and philosophical image of Socrates based on the variable, and sometimes contradictory, nature of the existing sources on his life.

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The allegory states that there exists prisoners chained together in a cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying puppets or other objects. This casts a shadow on the other side of the wall. The prisoners watch these shadows, believing them to be real.

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"She is engrossed by the corporeal, which the continual association and constant care of the body have made natural to her. ... And this, my friend, may be conceived to be that heavy, weighty, earthy element of sight by which such a soul is depressed and dragged down again into the visible world, because she is afraid of the invisible and of the world below; prowling about tombs and sepulchers, in the neighborhood of which, as they tell us, are seen certain ghostly apparitions of souls which have not departed pure, but are cloyed with sight and therefore visible."

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"But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods. And this is the reason, Simmias and Cebes, why the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and endure and refuse to give themselves up to them"

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As mentioned through Socrates from Plato in the Phaedo, "Yet I, too, believe that the gods are our guardians, and that we are a possession of theirs." We belong to the gods, we are here in earth to pease them and once they need us they will call to be with them, here he is talking about suicide being a bad way to die.

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Ideas of things that actually exist. They represent what each individual thing is supposed to be like in order for it to be that specific thing. For example, the Form of human shows qualities one must have in order to be human.

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Since the soul shares its essential properties with the invisible and the divine, it necessarily shares the further property of immortality. In contrast, that that is visible must also be mortal.

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The remembrance of the ideas that each human being possesses in an innate way in the soul. Knowledge is not found in the external world, but is internally located, in the consciousness.

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Forms are eternal and unchanging, and as the soul always brings life, then it must not die, and is necessarily "imperishable". As the body is mortal and is subject to physical death, the soul must be its indestructible opposite.

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Reason works with and upon spirit and appetite, and these two also move and affect the reason. But the relation of reason to spirit and appetite is determined by what reason is: a goal-seeking and measuring faculty. The passions also engage in goal seeking, for they constantly seek the goal of pleasure.

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Athens at the time was the center of the world, it housed the latest in technology and civilization. Not only was commerce and life thriving but also ideas about the world and theories on how each could be a better person circulated the place.

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Ariston, Legend holds that he was descended from Codrus, the ancient king of Athens. He supposedly could trace his ancestry to the God of the sea Poseidon through Codrus and Melanthus.

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"And being dead is the attainment of this separation; when the soul exists in herself, and is parted from the body and the body is parted from the soul? That is death?

Exactly: that and nothing else, he replied."

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Much of what we know from Socrates is thanks to Plato. With 36 dialogs, Plato managed to capture some of Socrates most famous and interesting ideas, that is until he developed his own views of the world.

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Adeimantus is often associated with greed or love for money in interpretations of the dialogue. On the whole, Adeimantus comes across as more cautious, more sober-minded, and less creative than his brother Glaucon.

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Glaucon and at least one of his brothers fought against the Megarians in the Battle of Megara, with the Athenians victorious in 424 BC, during the height of the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and their allies.

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Perictione, She was a descendant of Solon, the Athenian lawgiver. Her illustrious family goes back to Dropides, archon of the year 644 b.c.

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Plato's most famous work is the Republic, which details a wise society run by a philosopher. He is also famous for his dialogues, which showcase his metaphysical theory of forms, something else he is well known for.

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According to Plato's Phaedo, the souls is a never ending entity, alive before we came to existence and alive well after we are decease. He claimed the true philosopher will spend their entire life dedicating themselves to detach from the body and guide the soul towards true knowledge.