evidence: Plato maintained that one cannot simply believe or do as one wishes and maintain that this is the right way to live; one should instead work to discover what the right way to live actually is and then try one's best to live that way. Through his four-act drama, Plato provides a role model in Socrates for others to emulate and this drama relies completely on one's acceptance of the Theory of Forms; a world of ideal, objective, truth which exists independently of one's individual belief system. [...] In his drama of the last days of Socrates' life, Plato provided the world with the ultimate role model of the philosopher who lives his belief in these higher truths and in the unseen realm from which they originate and gives his life for that belief. Even if one does not accept the claims Plato articulated, one cannot help but admire his vision of a greater, better, world which one draws closer to simply by believing it exists.