courage and for his staunch opposition to injustice. The story of his trial and subsequent death by drinking hemlock after his conviction for “corrupting” young men and not believing in the city’s gods is told in Plato’s dialogues Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. Plato 5. Plato’s metaphysics: the Theory of Forms. What is truly real is not the objects of sensory experience but the Forms or Ideas. These are not just in the head but are in a separate realm and are ageless, eternal, unchanging, unmoving, and indivisible…
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