Socrates, Plato and Descartes

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This paper reviews the history, work and teachings of Socrates, Plato and Descartes. This paper goes on to discuss Descartes' attempt to distinguish between the real world and the metaphysical which, much like Plato, comes up with a duality.

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"Perhaps no two philosophers are more discussed and more revered among the modern study of philosophy than Plato and Descartes. Plato, famous for taking the wisdom of his teacher Socrates and forming it into something completely different than what had come before him and being the teacher of Aristotle who would come after him, is probably most known for devising a system of metaphysics based on perfect, theoretical "forms." It is this theory of forms that will inform this paper, so far as Plato is concerned. The father of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, was also as groundbreaking as the afore-mentioned Greek who came centuries before him."

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