Plato: The concept of Forms.
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- Plato: The concept of Forms.
- The relationship between concepts and phenomena.
- Relationship between two worlds.
- Didn't illustrate the fundemental differences.
- Believed two were different: unlike the visible world, the forms were beyond our senses.
- Despite this, the analogy isn't effective in helping us understand differences.
- Concept of Ideals.
- Behind every concept in the visible world, there is an unseen reality = its form.
- Forms exist separately from their particulars.
- Ideal blueprints.
- Philosophers seek them when looking for the truth.
- Behind every concept in the visible world, there is an unseen reality = its form.
- Each human has an immortal soul = access to the forms before we exist in the material world.
- Innate knowledge of them that can be developed through rational thought.
- The Form of the Good relationship with other Forms.
- Forms in hierarchy.
- Form of Good is central to the existence of the whole universe.
- The highest task of the philosopher is to gain knowledge of the good = lead to full understanding and rational behaviour.
- FoGood is the principle of order which structures other forms.
- The relationship between concepts and phenomena.
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