Plato’s Anthropological Idea "Plato's teaching contains a wealth of anthropological ideas about man that are important for a deeper understanding of human nature from the perspective of our rational nature, political and social essence. To the question of who a man is, he answers with a system of concepts that, sui generis, includes human nature in its various aspects. Man is a reflection of a metaphysically grounded idea, its concrete manifestation, since the ideal determines the real, the abstract idea establishes the visible world of appearance" -- author
