Individual Soul, World Soul and the Form of the Good in Plato’s Republic and Timaeus

If you were to ask a modern reader what is the most important characteristic of Plato’s thought, I presume he would undoubtedly say the theory of Ideas or Forms. As a matter of fact, we have read Plato as the philosopher of Forms, i. e. we have taken Plato as the founder of Western ontology. However, Plato never used the word ‘ontology’ and this practically exclusive accent on the doctrine of Ideas that has been predominant in the abundant English-American research over the last fifty years h..