Karteikarten
Plato's ideas
Karten in diesem Stapel (13)
- 1Plato427-347 BCE
- 2Where can the Cave analogy be found?Book VII of "The Republic"
- 3What does it serve as?An illustration of the human condition
- 4Describe the analogy in bullet points-Humans strapped down in cave
-Behind them is a fire that has moving objects in front of it
-A prisoner escapes and journeys to the surface of the earth. He is dazzled by what he sees
-Painful journey back to tell the others. Is rejected and threatened with death. - 5What do the different realms, themes and people represent?Shadowy realm= our world
Escapee= Socrates
Surface of the Earth= the forms
The sun= the Good - 6What are forms?Ideal versions of things in the material world
- 7What did Plato argue?There is a world higher and more meaningful than ours, inhabited by the forms
- 8What did Plato believe was behind all material, temporary things in this world?A form that is eternal and immutable
- 9What are the different intellectual facilities used to see the realm of the senses and the realm of the forms?Opinion (doxa) and knowledge (episteme)
- 10How can Plato's theory of the forms explain how we can use a single term for many things (eg. beauty)?Plato said we must have some criteria of beauty that we all share and this would originate in the realm of the forms
- 11How does the divided line work?
- 12What is "The Good"?The source of all forms. It was beyond even Plato's capabilities to describe it. He uses the simile of the sun to try and explain it. Although you cannot look at it directly, you can look at what is illuminated by it
- 13Give two criticisms of the forms?How many forms are there? Is there a form for hair or dirt?
The Third Man Argument- Aristotle asks if there has to be a form accounting for the differences between forms and the particular thing