Plato's metaphysical tradition posits a world of forms (a realm of pure ideas and pure thought that is more real, permanent, and everlasting than the world of becoming, change, and flux that humans inhabit) functioning analogously to the Christian/Jewish heaven—a transcendent realm where something divine rains down its significance and will on the natural world.
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Unidentified Speaker — Great Minds - Introduction to the Problems and Scope of Phi… [8ZoQ7wh9pSQ]Evidence Quote
“the realm of the forms is a place of pure ideas of pure thought that's somehow more real more permanent more everlasting than this world of becoming this world of change this world of flux that we inhabit”
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