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Plato World of Forms
`The moral and emotional parts of men's nature, essence, farvour'
-oxfords learners dictionary.
Most people would argue that they have a `soul' or a `spiritual' side/part, and by that they probably mean a belief in superstitious or meta-physical ideas, such as God and Karma. But when you ask them what they mean, the response is usual quite jittery, `you know - part of your inner self.. etc'
And I'm not even sure if I understand the word, soul. And if I want to go by the dictionary, `part of (wo) men's nature' then I'd say it probably doesn't exist. I don't think any moral/emotional values are innate; everything is a social construct, weather Christians (just an example) or whoever like to argue otherwise.
Plato argued that everything around us are just...
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