Forms
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 19-03-14 10:26
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- Plato
- was a "dualist," because he believed in two worlds
- Appearances (this world)
- Reality (the forms)
- Characteristics of the forms
- Transcendent
- Unchanging
- Archetype for things that physically exist
- Archetype definition: an initial model or idea from which later ideas and models of the same thing are all derived.
- Immortal
- Form of the good
- Highest of forms
- Source of other forms
- Enables us to understand, assess things.
- By "form," he means the concept/idea of something.
- A form is unchanging because it is a concept, it is not like physical objects that imitate or copy the form.
- Physical objects die but the form is everlasting.
- Therefore, the form exists in another reality.
- Physical objects die but the form is everlasting.
- A form is unchanging because it is a concept, it is not like physical objects that imitate or copy the form.
- Characteristics of the forms
- was a "dualist," because he believed in two worlds
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