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Student’s name Lecturer’s name Course name Date Metaphysics and Socrates According to Silverman, this branch of philosophy concerns ‘what exists’ or what is there. It offers a detailed account of the actuality of situations, their thoughts, and their utterances (77). It does not seek to establish why biological, physical, and natural things came to be the way they are but only looks at the unaltered. In effect, the philosopher Socrates, through the voice of Plato, concludes that to be is to be something and that every item that exists has the uniquely distinguishing features that make it immortal. For instance, when describing the soul, the one form that we should consider is that it is never-ending and that it cannot fail to be so. Socrates philosophical view of ontology as portrayed in his dialogues with Plato The philosopher asserted that learners usually have absurd perceptions towards ‘being’ and that the only way to comprehend it is through the theory of forms. The form is what is real, and we should consider it to be indestructible, and that what ‘is the same as itself.’ To start with, he argues that matters are never what they seem to be seeing as the ultimate reality cannot be in the material form. He says that, ‘if an item has never been experienced, then the actual form or goal of it must have always been there independently’ (Robert 40). For instance, while the concept of circles exists, it would be misguided for a teacher to argue that the circlet that he or she draws is better than the preliminary theory of that particular figure. Any idea that regards the initial subject cannot be a better version of it. He also argues that
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