Religious Studies - Philosophy - Ancient philosophical influences- PLATO 2
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- Plato 2
- Form of Good summarised
- ultimate form
- perfection of the forms comes from the form of the good
- enables us to 'see' the forms (like the sun gives light to real world
- influenced christian idea of God
- not directly/ personaly involved within the world
- Arguments against the Forms
- Wittgenstein
- rejected the one over many argument with his family resemblance theory
- there is merely a series of overlapping characteristics- just as members of a family may resemble the other members of the family
- rejected the one over many argument with his family resemblance theory
- Third Man argument
- responds to theory's claim to explain reality
- if we need the idea of forms to explain what objects have in common, then what's to stop us asking what the forms and particulars have in common? - thus r requiring a third party to explain this. (process could proceed infinitely)
- Claim that there must be forms for everything can be carried to absurdity
- is there truly an ideal form of dirt, hair or even a bogey (as Stephen Law says)?
- New inventions/ things that become extinct
- unchanging nature of world of forms must mean that the form of an ipad must've always existed
- and form of t-rex must still exist
- unchanging nature of world of forms must mean that the form of an ipad must've always existed
- forms do not have a practical value; study of them takes away from useful scientific study of world
- if there are forms of every possible number, then there are an infinite number of forms
- theory of evolution & advances in chemistry mean we do now have an empirical means of explaining what similar objects / animals have in common
- Wittgenstein
- Assessing Plato's Forms
- The one over many argument
- when observing different Particulars, (eg chairs) able to recognize that they are same sort of thing, even if we can't explain what that is
- even a small child can correctly identity what a new thing in-front of them may be, even if never seen before
- we have innate ability to recognize the forms- as our souls knew them before we were born (able to recognize the one over the many)
- even a small child can correctly identity what a new thing in-front of them may be, even if never seen before
- when observing different Particulars, (eg chairs) able to recognize that they are same sort of thing, even if we can't explain what that is
- The ideal standard
- idea of forms can be used to support belief in absolute unchanging moral rules
- the form = ideal standard of property
- form of good gives absolute idea of what goodness really is, not matter of opinion
- The one over many argument
- Form of Good summarised
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