;s concept of the atom theory. She felt that hediscovered the solution to the problem of basic substance and transformations. Sheconcluded that nature must have been built up of small parts that are never changed.Soon enough began her study of the infamous Socrates. Socrates was a verydifferent man. His belief in a purely objective understanding of such concepts as love,justice, and virtue. He believed that all vice is the result of ignorance, and that no personis willingly badly; correspondingly, virtue is knowledge, and those who knew the rightwill act right.It wasn’t until the teachings of Socrates, that Sophie finally saw who her philosopher was. She found out, not by meeting him in person, but saw him on a videotape he sent her. The video tape was of him describing to her about Athens, Greece. Onthe video tape she was given four tasks by a man portraying, Plato. The first task wasthat she was to think about how could a baker bake fifty cookies to look identical. Thesecond task was to think of why horses are the same. Thirdly, she had to decide whetherman is a immortal soul. And finally she had to say whether women and men are equallysensible.For the first task, she came up with the answer that the baker had to use a mold tomake them identical. For the second task, her conclusion was that no horse could be thesame but they did come out of the same mold, no other mold. For the third conclusion, she decided for a man to have a immortal soul he must have two separate parts: a bodythat gets worn out over time and a soul that functions no matter what happens to thebody. Her fourth conclusion was that men have the same common sense as a woman, soyes they would have to be equal. After she finished thinking about these ideas, thenfinally came her lesson about Plato. Plato’s philosophy was that all living things wereimperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas. Everything and everyone ...
