Platos Demiurge and from of good
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- Created on: 04-02-17 12:18
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- Plato
- The Form Of the Good
- Different forms were related to eachother and arranged in a hierachy
- The most important of all froms was the FORM OF GOOD
- This illuminates all the other forms and gives them their value
- Justice, Wisdom Courage and beauty are aspects of goodness so they are the higher forms
- Although not as important as the form of Good
- The most important of all froms was the FORM OF GOOD
- Goodness is seen as the purest, most abstract of the forms
- The furthest away from the physical world and those forms lower down in the hierachy
- Goodness is something we have never seen perfectly exemplified in the physical world
- But wer have seen actions and role models we recognise to be 'good.
- Goodness is something we have never seen perfectly exemplified in the physical world
- The furthest away from the physical world and those forms lower down in the hierachy
- True knowledge for Plato is a knowledge of Goodness
- If someone knows what is good and bad they will choose the good.
- It is only ignorance which causes immortality
- People steal and tell lies because they are ignorant of the form of Honesty.
- Different forms were related to eachother and arranged in a hierachy
- Plato's Demiurge
- World was created by a God called the DEMIURGE
- He is good and desires the best for humanity
- Tried to make the Universe the best that he can but he is limited by materials
- The final result is as good as he can manage
- It was never going to be perfect anyway because it is physical and therefore changeable
- The final result is as good as he can manage
- The name comes from a greek word for a 'craftsman' or a 'workman'
- World was created by a God called the DEMIURGE
- The Form Of the Good
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