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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Plato's work, The Republic and specifically on his discussion in the end of book 6 of the "Divided Line". This analogy is used to arrange the matters human beings can grasp and (in some cases) develop knowledge about, ranging from those that posses the least truth and being to those that possess the most.

The four parts of the line include: 1. he domain of shadows, reflections, and other things of that sort; 2. the domain of "real", material, generally visible, objects, such as animals, plants, and human-produced artifacts; 3. some of the forms, those that are grasped to some degree through likenesses; and 4. the forms grasped on their own terms, and the Form of the Good.

We also have four modes of grasping these objects. Eikasia, "imagination" or "picture thinking""; Pistis, "belief"; Dianoia, "discursive thinking"; and Noesis, "understanding" or "intellection".

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