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This 3 page paper makes a declarative statement of Plato's philosophy; gives two opinions of the statement; analyzes the opinions; and argues in favor of one. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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makes a declarative statement of Platos philosophy; gives two opinions of the statement; analyzes the opinions; and argues in favor of one. Discussion Most people probably associate Plato with his
idea of Forms; his thinking can be summarized as follows: "The world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a
more real and perfect realm, populated by entities (called "forms" or "ideas") that are eternal, changeless, and in some sense paradigmatic for the structure and character of our world" (Kraut,
2004). Lets make this statement: Platos principle philosophy is his Theory of Forms, which describes two states of being: that of the world in which we live, and an ideal
world populated by changeless Forms that are perfect. One of the most vociferous critics of Platos Theory of Forms was Aristotle, who believed the theory was badly flawed. Aristotle "thought
that Platos theory of forms with its two separate realms failed to explain what it was meant to explain" (Banach, 2006). Aristotle apparently found the Theory of Forms unsatisfactory in
almost every regard; it was his opinion that it did not explain how we could have "objective knowledge of this world" or understand its permanence and order (Banach, 2006). Aristotle
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two worlds is so hard to understand" (Banach, 2006).
There is "no need to split the world up into two separate realms in order to explain objectivity and permanence in our experience" (Banach, 2006). One of the most
usual examples of the way to understand Forms is to consider a circle, which is defined as a figure in which all points are equidistant from a center point (Kraut,
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