What is Plato’s Idealism and how is it different from commonsensical view of reality?
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Imagine you are a jeweler and you have this picture in your head of the perfect ring. But any time you try to make it, there are some imperfections. Maybe you are a very bad jeweler, and in fact all of your products are terrible, some are perhaps a bit better.
The other people can’t see into your head, but they can look at the products and they can kind of figure what the perfect ring in your head could have been.
According to Plato, everything has a picture of perfect version in a place that is sort of a dreamland or heaven or similar, nonphysical place, like a vault of blueprints. And every existing copy of that thing, like every tree or every animal or every river etc. is just a crooked version of that perfect picture, as if our world was made by a lame craftman.
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