In Plato’s philosophy, what was the analogy of the divided line?
According to Plato, the empirical world senses sensory information that virtually ignored at the best level of opinion. The belief that only true of knowledge comes by the action of rational thought in one’s own minds of the body. Thus, Plato categorized this viewpoint as a famous analogy of the divided line.
According to the analogy of the divided line, imagining is seen as the lowest form of understanding because it is based on images. A belief does not constitute knowledge and it is based on the contemplation of mathematical relationships and knowledge that is considered as the highest knowledge because it is applied to the empirical problems and exists only by definition.
The highest form of thinking involves nurturing the various modified forms by themselves. Knowledge and Intelligence constitutes the biggest forms of wisdom because it encompasses other forms and marks their interrelatedness. The good’s form reflects all other forms and makes them showable and knowledgeable. It is considered as the biggest source of truth that equates with the classical form of knowledge by combining with the theology of God.