My Cat is More Perfect than Your Cat
Plato’s theory of forms, and the pursuit of the ideal
9 min readJul 24, 2021
What makes an ideal, or perfect, cat? What makes an ideal, or perfect, political state? Is there such a thing in the world as perfect justice? For that matter, what makes anything ideal? These questions have preoccupied philosophers since the earliest times. And one answer to these questions was provided by the…
