• Plato believes that there are two separate worlds or two different kinds of things - physical objects and Forms (or it can also be expressed as the mind and body problem). Plato believes that if we learn more about the Forms we will become less concerned with physical matters and less governed by our appetites, and also less reliant on our unreliable senses for knowledge. The Forms are what really exists and the physical world is a kind of shadow or reflection of the world of the Forms. Or in other words the soul has power over matter (body), the soul is the seat of power and makes us what we are. This (physical) world has no value, the other world is the one that matters.
• For Plato there are two worlds in existence the physical world and the world of Forms. Our bodies are a part of the physical, visible world and so are our senses . And the other world is the world of Forms (or our soul). The Forms are what really exists (the soul is eternal), the physical world is a reflection of the world of the Forms. We learn about the Forms not by means of the sense but by means of Reason. We don’t need to look at the Forms or listen to them. We figure out what they are by thinking about them. Our soul is what links us humans with the eternal realm of the Forms. For Plato the soul is more or less identical with our reason. So one result of coming to learn about the Forms is that we will become less concerned with physical matters; we will be less governed by our appetites, and less reliant on our unreliable senses for knowledge.