Metaphysics

Metaphysics and the Ontic Question in Plato’s Dialogues: Establishing a Horizon for Plato’s Philosophy The Dialogues of Plato deal ultimately with that subject to which Plato devoted his life: Philosophy. The etymology of the word, then, gives us a clue as to Plato’s concern. Thus philia, friendship or love, finds its object in sophia, wisdom, and its companion sophorosyne, or the spirit embodied by the Delphic imperatives “Know Thyself” and “To Thyself …

…by taken as a whole. In establishing the Forms as the highest reality he was establishing the horizon of his Philisophic Goal The state of wisdom for Plato is achieved through knowledge of the real, or those entities that are invariant, eternal, immortal and essentially a function of Order. Stated differently, the state of wisdom is one in which the independent soul passes into the realm of the immaterial and contacts entities with invariant natures.