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For Plato only the "Forms" were fully real in the sense that...
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only they were
eternally unchanging, independent of any other object, not caused by anything else, and existed just as they were cognized in pure intellectual intuition. For Playo Forms are the objects of intellectual, conceptual thought. They are immaterial and exist independently of human thought. |
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According to Plato, What is the realtionship between what is physical and the forms? Are physical objects "real"?
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Plato held the only reality physical objects have is the reflected, partial reality they gain from their relationship to the Forms.
Insofar as ordinary physical objects "participate in," "imitate," and "approximate to" the Forms, they, too, share a limited and relative being, "rolling about between being and nonbeing,"...parastitic on the firm reality of the the Forms. |
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How does one come to know the forms?
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a kind of "recollection."
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the sharp distinction Plato draws between the mind and the body is often referred to as...
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"mind-body dualism."
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True or False: Plato believed there wre degrees of reality and what was most real was that which came closest to the forms.
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True
Plato offers a multistoried reality to which each level of reality offers us a different degree of knowledge. |
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Plato's theory of reality is intertwined with his theory of...
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knowledge
True knowledge is knowledge of the forms |
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What are several levels of meaning for Plato's allegory of the cave?
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1. An explanation of why the citizens of Athens executed Socrates
2. An account of the human condition: People are happy in their ignorance. 3.Characterization of Plato's philosophy. 4. Statement of Plato's view of knowledge and reality. |
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What is the Good that Plato speaks of?
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No one's really sure. He doesn't say. When he speaks of it though he speaks of the good with the greatest awe. Knowledge of the Good is the highest kind of knowledge, a kind of enlightenment of which it is said that only a few fortunate seekers achieve.
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