Oscar Magana Philosophy 100 June 10, 2002 Plato’s Theory of Forms Plato’s Theory of Forms makes a distinction between those objects that are real and the concepts that exist in our mind. His dialogues explain this in the form of knowledge. The path to knowledge is explained through three analogies, the Allegory of the Cave, the Divided Line, and the Analogy of the Sun. The Allegory of the Cave portrays knowledge as the process of leaving the cave into the sunlight. The
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