Plato made the observation that we cannot judge anything to be better or worse than anything else without an absolute standard against which we can measure the two. Every time we make a comparison, we are comparing the particulars to the universal, the form or archetype or ideal, in the world of ideas, which gives us the absolute we use to make the comparison. But some of these areas overlap: the True (with a capital T) is obviously related to the Good (capital G); the Beautiful (capital B) is also connected to the Good (capital G), and so on. But how can there be different forms whose shadows
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