PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Electrical Contacts, Glaucon, Dianoia
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What are platonic forms: plato tells us that. A concrete object shares in a form. Distinct concrete objects may share in the same form. A form only appears in association with concrete things. It is by sharing in a form that a concrete object is what it is, at least in some respect. Beautiful things are beautiful because each shares in the. Parallel case: concrete physical circles (which are in fact imperfect), as related to geometrical entities (which are perfect) In part, then, we can see plato is attempting to rationalize moral knowledge along the lines of mathematical knowledge. Proof: knowledge is infallible and opinion is fallible. Hence they differ in their results and so are different capacities. Those things identified as e. g. just are also unjust in some circumstances. All these things partake of opposite characterizations (479. A-d: therefore, such sights and sounds are the objects of opinion, and not of knowledge (479d-e)
