Plato
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- Created on: 30-03-15 14:04
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- Plato
- About Plato
- A.N Whitehead said all European philosophy is a "series of footnotes to Plato"- Suggests he is a major philosopher.
- Pupil of Socrates
- For Plato, knowledge gained through senses (posteriori) = merely opinions. BUT that gained through reasoning (priori) = certain.
- ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
- The Symbolism:
- The cave= world of sight/appearances.
- Prisoners= Us, trapped in this world of appearances which we believe to be true.
- The objects/statues= imitations of the forms.
- The Journey out of the cave= journey of the soul upward to the realm of the forms
- The sun= Form of the good- Enlightenment, sustains all the other forms.
- Prisoner who escapes= Philosopher king
- The Symbolism:
- Theory of the Forms
- Forms= perfect ideas, types of things. They are timeless, unchanging and beyond space.
- The created world (world of appearances) is opposite to the realm of the forms. Things are contingent and mortal.
- The forms are PERFECT
- Explains why we all recognise the same essential elements in something- they all have bits of form in them.
- Helps us understand the evils and imperfections in the world
- About Plato
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