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1 Explain Plato’s contrast, in the Republic, between examples of visible beauty and ‘the beautiful itself’. Why does he believe true knowledge must relate to the latter, not the former?

2 Why does Socrates think that knowledge and belief are distinct powers that apply themselves in distinct spheres or subject matters? Why is knowledge always about the stable, absolute and eternal?

3 Opinion (or belief) is located between pure being and absolute not-being so that it amounts to neither knowledge nor complete ignorance. How does Socrates argue for this claim and what does it tell us about the objects of opinion?