the perfect. The physical reference, be it only metaphoric, is essential to being able to convey any information. So even though the absolute truth of an object may lie completely outside of the physical, the accessing of that information while confined within a physical form is dependent upon physical representation. The philosopher is supposed to be awaiting the release of the soul from the body, so as perfection and truth can be appreciated in itself by itself. Without the monotonous struggle of the philosophical process while within physical confines of the body, no soul would be trained to appreciate the intellectual freedom granted to the released soul. “So long as we keep to the body and our soul is contaminated with this imperfection, there is no chance of ever attaining satisfactorily to our object, which we assert to be Truth.” (14) The rationale that the separation of the soul and body as being the only avenue to attain absolute truth, must have come from the analyzing of the physical information and then evaluating it as being flawed and a distraction to the real pursuit of wisdom. Without this evaluation no conclusions could be made as to the validity of the senses and all that is contained in sensual information. This falls back to the cyclic nature of philosophical investigation for with out the expenditure of filtering out the physical the intellect would remain undefined and no investigation would be possible. Further more we interact in a physical context, and are dependent upon sensory information for communication. Without communication Socrates and Plato would not be able to conduct any investigation. For investigation without communication will always collimate with hypothesis, and never lead to any absolute fact. The very basis of Plato’s works is communication and that communication is in the form of dialogues, the very application of physical verbal communication. To propagate the ideals of ph...
