Plato
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- Created on: 12-10-13 13:10
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- Plato
- The world of forms (outside world)
- idea of reality
- Entities that correspond to those in the human world
- these are forms (supreme ideals) which give meaning to the world around us.
- We remember the forms as our soul encountered them before birth e.g. objects such as animals have forms-these are more real as the earth examples are imperfect.
- these are forms (supreme ideals) which give meaning to the world around us.
- Entities that correspond to those in the human world
- transcendental
- idea of reality
- The world of particulars
- A place of illusion where particulars or predicates are represented as the imperfect representation of the forms, e.g. beauty can describe a flower.
- material/less real
- Soul and body
- Plato was a dualist-mind and body are separate (soul lives on when the body dies)
- The soul was born in the world of forms and transmigrates to this world to join the body.
- The trauma of birth makes us forget everything we knew.
- 'Learning is remembering'
- The trauma of birth makes us forget everything we knew.
- source or reason
- tripartite- intellect, spirit, appetite-analogy of the chariot.
- Symbols in the analogy
- Analogy-the description of something else to describe something less familiar
- Allegory- the use of symbols to convey different meanings of the analogy
- shackles
- neck- trauma of birth
- body- soul is shackled by the body and its senses
- Shadows and echoes- illusions of reality-experience of the senses.
- Journey out of the cave-journey of philosophical reasoning to realise what is true
- slope-education and understanding
- Fire- reflects the form of the good (sun), creates the shadows.
- Sun-form of the good-life+intelligence-illuminates.
- Reflections-'learning is remembering', parallel of 2 worlds
- Return to the cave- prisoners reject his thoughts and want to kill him- parallels with Socrates explaining to the Athenians about their illusory thoughts and wanting to kill him.
- The world of forms (outside world)
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