Plato's Theory of Forms
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- Created on: 04-02-17 11:26
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- Plato's theory of Forms
- He noticed that everything was constantly changing and nothing ever stays the same.
- Even solid objects were either growing, or decaying, becoming scratched, stained, faded, hot and cold.
- How could people attain true and certain knowledge fi the objects we want to know about are constantly changing?
- He argued that there are other realties of which we can have certain knowledge in a different 'world' which are eternal and always stay the same
- He thought that what we experience through our senses in the world around us are imitations and examples of their 'ideal forms'.
- When we see an act of 'justice' we know it is an example of its ideal form of justiuce as it is not perfect.
- He thought that what we experience through our senses in the world around us are imitations and examples of their 'ideal forms'.
- Our mental concept of the 'form of a circle' will be a perfect circle.
- He believed that the world we live in is full of these imperfect imitations
- We recognise things for what they are because of our knowledge of their forms
- The ideas of the forms are ternal and unchanging and doesn't depend of physical circumstances to exist
- more real than physical objects
- We have an understanding of the forms from birth
- We have immortal souls as we lived in the realms of forms before being born into the material world
- He noticed that everything was constantly changing and nothing ever stays the same.
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