What are platonic concepts?
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So far, all the answers given are wrong or off..Many are presenting the Platonic forms as either imaginary or conceptual. This is directly opposite of what Plato believed. For Plato, the forms are what is ultimately real. Physical existence is a poor copy made by a demiurge. It is a shoddy copy because matter is inherently chaotic and evil.
Now, what are the forms? They are universals. Of any given class of things, there is a perfect ideal – the universal shared among all the individual instances. All humans participate in the form of humaness. Forms (ideals) themselves can participate in other forms, up the ladder until we reach the ultimate form: the form of the Good. Depending on your form of Platonism, this form could be deified.
TL;DR forms are the very real universals in which all things in the material world participate.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics/
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