Plato And The Idea Of Form Flashcards
World of being
Objective
Independent
Absolute
Plato
Real name: Aristocles
Founded the Academy
Wrote in dialogues
Creator of first philosophical system
Heraclitus belief
Can’t step in the same river twice
True knowledge is
One and unchanging
Forms are:
Objective Transcendent Eternal Intelligible Archetypal Perfect
The divided line
Metaphysics Epistemology
Higher forms Understanding
Being Knowledge
Mathematical forms Reason
—————————————————— Sensible objects Perception
BECOMING OPINION
Images Imagination
Accidental and essential forms
(Just remember)
God
A form of forms
Cause of knowledge and truth
Essential form of good
Third man argument
Comparing 2 men requires third man requires fourth man and ad infinitum
Aristotle’s beliefs
No transcendent forms forms are causes only by being in those things
Hylomorphic composition
Form and matter
Only true with natural world not God
Inside and outside manner of looking at things via Aristotle
Inside-potential of object
Outside-conditions
Art and Plato and Aristotle
Plato- art should be banned
Aristotle-art is closer to form
Aristotles four clauses
Material clause- matter
Formal clause- essence
Efficient clause- what brings it into being
Final clause- purpose of the thing
Realism
Platonic realism- reality is something identified with its form, world of being and world of becoming, St. Augustine taught this view
Aristotle realism- form inside of thing, st. Thomas aquinas taught this view
