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10 Cards in this Set
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True or False: For Plato Forms are the objects of intellectual, conceptual thought.
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True.
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True or False: the Forms, these objects of conceptual thought, are immaterial and exist independently of human thought.
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True
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True or False: the Forms these objects of conceptual thought, are impermanent and changing?
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False: they are permanent and unchanging.
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True or False: 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" to the the Forms, they, too, share a limited and relative being, "rolling a out between being and nonbeing," of reality
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True
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True or False there is only being and non-being. There are no degrees of reality.
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False. There are degrees of reality.
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True or False: Plato draws a sharp distinction between the mind and the body.
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True: this is often referred to as "mind-body dualism"
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According to Plato, how do we acquire knowledge of the Forms?
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a kind of recollection
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corresponding to each of the degrees of reality is a corresponding level or degree of...
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knowledge.
What is real can be classified on an ascending scale, from a mirror image that has a minimal degree of reality to physical objects, which have a greater degree of reality, to the Forms, which have the greatest reality.etc.. see p.96 |
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What is the Republic
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The Republic was written by Plato. It is far-ranging treatise on virtually every area of Plato's philosophy. It can also be read as a work on the ideal political organization for human society, as a utopia. It is presented as a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon, one of Plato's older brothers. The literary of dialogue was a favorite of Plato's, but here the conversations are recalled by Socrates
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True or False: according to Plato, rulers should be philosophers, because philosophers are not interested in transitory things that might corrupt them but rather have their concerns directed toward the eternal principles of things and the organization of human society on the ideal model of perfect justice and the ideal state.
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True
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