Humans, by nature, are curious beings. Since the beginning of conscious thought, people have questioned their ideas of reality. Before the Enlightenment, people relied on mythical deities for explanation rather than reason. However, unlike their predecessors, early, presocratic philosophers such as Thales, Parmenides, and Zeno attempted to logically evince theories of reality. As philosophy evolved into an ever increasingly complicated system of thought, new philosophers emerged, challenging the beliefs of those who preceded them. Plato, who studied under Socrates, was unwavering in his rejections of the sophist declaration that, "Man is the measure of all things." He called the sophists "superficial manipulators of the rhetoric and dialectic." He argues the relativism and subjectivism of past philosophers only lead to chaos. If man were the sole judge, than everyone's ultimately skewed perceptions of truth would entail a world without definite truth or purpose, leaving us hallow, pointless beings without meaning. Plato believed there was an inexplicable purpose waiting to be discovered, a truth found solely in the World of Being. The World of Becoming, or the visible world, however, is the reality which we, as humans, can perceive. By using our senses, we learn of an ever changing, temporal, finite, relative, dependant world–a world which is neither true nor real. This world is an obscure reflection of the World of Being, according to Plato. Everything within our realm of reality is an imperfect, skewed form of the eternal truth of the intelligible, idealistic World of Being. This leads to the question, if true reality is in the World of Being, does the World of Becoming, then, have any reality at all? And like most philosophical questions, there is no clear and distinct evidence on which to base a conclusive answer. However, by recognizing the fact tha
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