Political Science 2237E Lecture 6: day 6 - platos repulic
26 Sep 2018
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Ideas are created by individuals and society. Idea"s are a result of individual and social processes. No such thing as an ultimate idea. For him ideas are not a product of our minds or societies, they"re a product of a divine mind. Ideas are eternal and indestructible, they are permanent, Forms exist, whether we are looking at them or not. Forms are not entities, they are not alive, but they are there. Proof of this is that you can nd them/access them anywhere in the world. Forms are about the essence of an object, the essentials of an idea. Forms can be manifested in the physical world, but when we see it we are not seeing the form we are seeing the object. This needs to be highlighted because the object we are seeing may not be a good representation of the form. Part of the form of humanity is using reason.
