Plato
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- Created on: 26-01-16 18:39
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- Plato
- Forms
- Duplicious: 1) World of appearances 2) World of Forms
- Archetypes, Unchanging, Immortal, Transcendent
- A posteriori
- Form of the Good
- Highest of all forms
- Source and origin of all other forms
- Knowledge of this form is intrinsic - i.e ideas of education
- Teleological
- Critiques of Forms
- No evidence that they exist
- Could just be ideas preserved in mind
- Relativism threatens Form of Good
- Unclear link between forms and material world - Plato ignores beauty Bertrand Russell
- Is there a form of death and disability - so far removed from our experiences - what do they apply to?
- Third man argument - endless series that never stops
- Supporters of Forms
- Genetics - species genetic code
- Descartes - ideas in mind --> reality
- Kant: 2 realities - noumeal and phenomenal - former cannot be known
- Quantum physics - we cannot trust our experiences
- Cave
- Prisoners - trapped in illusory world
- Shadows - copies of forms
- World above ground - forms
- Sun - form of good - by which other forms are known
- Freed prisoner = socrates
- Demiurge
- Republic: always is (intelligence) and has no becoming (opinion)
- Creator = Demiurge craftsman who made a visible changeable copy of world
- Artisan who makes copy of form of world - He made time
- World has a soul - Demiurge made gods who made humans - body and soul comes from what is left of worlds soul
- Analysis of Demiurge
- World could be random chance or unintelligent
- Judeo Christian is diff as God creates ex nihilo
- God acts intentionally
- God is omnis
- Poses that there is something greater than God
- Forms
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