Explain The Platonic Forms

Explain the Platonic concept for “forms” Plato was a pupil of the philosopher Socrates, who was murdered for corrupting the youth of the city; he had been encouraging people to challenge the views and opinions of the city elders. Plato came up with an allegory of the cave, to explain the world we live in. the allegory suggested that people are ‘philosophically ignorant’ and are like the prisoners chained the floor of the cave. They can only see the shadows on the back of the cave; they are assuming that these shadows are in fact the whole of reality. The world outside represents the world of the forms; this is in a sense a perfect reality. The prisoner who escapes is like the person who achieves ‘philosophical enlightenment’ Plato’s forms