PHL202H5 Lecture Notes - Golden Retriever
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Platonic forms and knowledge (k)/ignorance (i)/opinion(o) (levels of understanding) Knowledge is of forms and opinion/belief is of partakers. True philosophers love knowledge and thus love learning about the forms, about what-is. Lovers of appearances love to inquire about partakers and thus develop mere opinions/beliefs about what is and what is not. If true philosophers are the only ones capable of gaining knowledge of forms (such as the forms of beauty, justice, or goodness), they are the only ones equipped with the proper wisdom to rule and protect the ideal city. 484d as if there is a grand system or plan, from which we bring down to earth and try to understand. There is more important than justice : form of the good (503e-518b) Form of the good is best of all the forms. A lot of disagreement about what the form is. Socrates cant articulate because he hasn"t reached it.
