plato

• horaton


  world of the shadows (this world as permanence cannot be found here)
• metempsychosis


  reincarnation (when you die physically your soul moves to another body)
• Noeton

  world of the forms
• anamnesis


  recollection of the souls knowledge throughout a persons life
• elkasia


  illusion (the world is characterised by this)
• tripartite 


  theory of the souls (3 aspects of the soul)
• 3 aspects of the soul (chariot metaphor)


  1.rational aspect (charioteer)

  2.spiritual aspect (will/drive/emotion)(horses)

  3.appentitive aspect (bodily desires)(horses)
• opposites argument


  for anything to exist the opposite must also exist
• extra views of the soul

  -the soul is the part of us that can experience the world of the forms

  -essential part of a human being

  -animates the body
• plato quote about the body

  "the body is the source of endless troubles"