Plato And The Theory Of Forms Flashcards
Plato noticed that the physical world is always ? and that nothing stays the same. Even static, solid ? are growing or decaying, which presented a problem.
Changing.
Objects.
Plato concluded that things we see in the physical world are always ?, therefore, they can never be the objects of true ?
Changing.
Knowledge.
Plato argued that there are other ? where we can have certain ? which is eternal and always stays the same.
Realities.
Knowledge.
Realities, for Plato, and ? called “Ideas” or “?”.
Concepts.
Forms.
In Plato’s view, different things we see in the physical world and learn through experience using our five senses are ? and examples of their ideal ?
Imitations.
Form.
Plato believed that all the material things we ? in the world around us are imitations of perfect ?
Experience.
Forms.
EXAMPLE: Our mental concept of the “Form of a Circle” will be a perfect circle, but whenever it’s translated into the physical world, it loses some of that ?
Perfection.
Plato believed the ? world is full of imperfect imitations.
Physical.
We recognise things for what they are only because of our ? of their Forms.
Knowledge.
Plato believed the unchanging nature of the ? made them “more real” than the ordinary physical objects we perceive with our ?
Forms.
Senses.
Plato thought we have an understanding of the Forms from both. We know, by intuition, what the Form of Beauty is and we make ? by comparing them with our concepts.
Judgements.
Plato believes that before we were born, we experienced the ? and this led to the conclusion that people must have immortal souls and must have lived in the ? of the Forms before being born here.
Forms.
Realm.
