1. PLATO
PROTÉGÉ OF SOCRATES

2. SOME ESSENTIAL IDEAS:
It is essential that our intellect governs our passions through our will; this is so no harm could come to our souls.
The concept of the IDEA carries through all reality. Everything that exists is a decaying FORM of an IDEA whose permanent existence is OUTSIDE OF SPACE AND TIME.
Works of art corrupt the mind
Mathematical relationships are built into everything in the material world.

3. The passions, the will, and the soul (in more depth)
Man’s basic desire is to be good and attain a “oneness” with god – the IDEA of god.
Consider the analogy of the charioteer: