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is subsequently called an idealist.

And if you want to really get a sexedrin headache, Plato is also called a realist.

That's really strange to our ears because in this day and age, we distinguish between idealists and realists, right?

We say a realist is a person who doesn't have his head in the clouds.

He's not entertaining fantasies or visions of grandeur, but he sees things the way they are.

He's honest appraisal.

He's a realist.

Whereas the idealist, he has these lovely, grandiose visions of what life can be, and it sort of looks at life through rose-colored glasses.

But when we're talking in philosophy, we're not using those terms that way.

Plato is called an idealist for this reason.

He's called an idealist because Plato believed that the highest order of reality is not physical, but here's the word, ideal.

That is, ideas.

The perfect man is found in the perfect idea of man.

and that any specific human being is merely a cheap imitation of the perfect idea of God.

There's a lot of heavy ideas in that context.

I'm going to just walk over here.

I'm going to walk right out of the camera here for a second.

Here's a chair.

Is that a chair?

Ma'am, do you recognize that as a chair?