PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glaucon, Socratic Method, Existence Precedes Essence
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Plato"s forms the allegory of the cave. Pp111 week 3 jan. 20, 14: the idea of essence, the shadow forms, his conception of reality, what he believed reality consisted of, the cave illustrates both plato"s metaphysics and his epistemology. Is this a true reconciliation: the empirical objects account for change and the ideal objects (forms) account for. Stability or constancy : the two realms are quite distinct as the empirical realm is subordinate to the ideal real, platonic dualism empirical objects and their essences are separate notions. It is what it is it"s not going to change what it is: ex. A chair isn"t going to become a couch it"ll always be a chair. In this sense humans are incomplete because they have a lot of growing and changing to do: the human project is to become god or being-in-itself-for-itself (a being which is both complete and free)
