What are platonic concepts?
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Abstract traits don’t physically exist, like I can’t hold up “Deservingness” and show it to you, but you think you know what it means for someone to deserve something, and you think some situations are more deserving than others.
Plato thinks instead of deservingness being a subjective concept that exists in your mind and you then apply to the world, the abstract idea of perfect deservingness exists, somewhere, maybe in like a form-heaven. Something is more or less deserving based on how well it conforms to that thing instead of how well it conforms to a representation of deservingness in your mind.
So basically you can understand it as Plato reifying subjective ideas, and then to be consistent he says all objective properties probably work the same way too.
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