PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moe Williams, Psychopomp
29 Oct 2020
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For plato, really real entities are abstract and universal, not concrete and particular like bodies. Really real entities include triangularity, threeness, and other forms . Socrates: and have you ever seen any of these things with your eyes? . I am speaking of all such things such as bigness, health, strength, and in a word, the reality of all things, that which each of them essentially is. (102-103) Forms are properties that are abstract and can be shared by different concrete particulars. The form of equality is distinct from all the concrete cases of equal bodies that we encounter. Form of the good, the form of the beautiful, the form of 10. The same can be said of the other forms. Forms are entities that are abstract and general (not concrete and particular) The form of 10 is that in virtue of which my fingers and your fingers are both 10.
