Plato's Theory of Forms
- Created by: Grace Gurbutt
- Created on: 17-04-15 09:57
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- Plato's Theory of Forms
- The Republic
- Concept of Forms
- Form of the good
- Most important form
- Innate a priori knowledge when born. Learning = recollection
- A form is the perfect version of something
- Third man argument
- There are three men. Is one of the man a copy of another man, or is he a copy of the form of man?
- Cave analogy
- Prisoners
- Those who exist in the WoA, are tied up so they can only see one wall of the cave
- Sun
- The actual form of the good
- Fire
- Dull recolection of the form of the good
- Outside world
- Everything in its true form, the WoF
- Shadows
- What prisoner believe to be true objects
- Cave itself
- World of apperances
- Where most people reside, not true reality, a dull recollection. We have once visited the WoF and seen the true form of things
- World of apperances
- Journey out of the cave
- One prisoner escapes, makes difficult ascent up the ramp into the real world, dazzled by light
- Objects
- Objects are carried and throw up shadows onto the cave wall
- Return of the prisoners
- Prisoners
- Return of the prisoner
- Despite his findings, the others do not want to know as they are happy in the WoF and become violent
- Form of the good
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