Can we separate Plato's ideas from Socrates' ideas in the dialogues?
Do we perceive the world in terms of very general categories, rather than as a catalogue of specific, individual items? Is Plato's division between the material and intellectual worlds an artificiality?
Plato speaks very briefly on understanding the highest Forms. When he does, he says that the Form of the Good must be intuited and "bursts forth" like a fire. Is the highest revelation in philosophy something so alogical and unscientific? Is it something that cannot be taught?