Plato Flashcards
Define ‘Forms’
Blueprints of things we see in the world
Define ‘Form of the good’
At the top of the hierarchy of the forms
In the allegory, who are the puppets?
We are the puppets
In the allegory, what are the shadows
All things we sense/experience
Define ‘universals’
The forms or ideals
Define ‘constant’ referring to the forms
The forms do not change
Allegory of the cave
Prisoners only see shadows of puppets
They think that the shadows they experience are true reality
A prisoner is freed to the real spiritual world
He recognises the puppets in the shadows
He sees the sun giving life to all things and all puppets
When he tries to tell the prisoners the truth, they ignore him
What is the word that describes two worlds
Dualist
What are the two realms
Material, Physical, in the cave
Immaterial, non-Physical, out the cave
Who did Plato think had escaped the cave
Socrates (Plato’s teacher)
What is a rationalist
Someone who gains knowledge through reason
what is a particular
an imperfect copy of a form visible in the material world
Where does Plato think we gain knowledge from
He doesn’t, he thinks we remember knowledge, we are all born with complete knowledge
Did Plato believe in Life After Death?
YES
