PHIL1090 Lecture Notes - Dianoia, Nous, Sophist
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Meno by: plato: the anatomy of the meno. Notion of taking the money sullies the art. Not a true stalemate bc learn that it cant be taught and doesn"t come by nature or practice. How do we get from q2 to q3 and what does the interlude with the slaveboy do (learners. Paradox: leads to 4th: how does discussion of virtue return in socrtic distinction between right opinion and knowledge and statues of daedalus example, platonic doctrine of forms/ideas . Socrates always searching for definitions (concepts/forms/essences) forms comes from root. Idea patos philosophy is often called idealism . Plato often calls concepts forms when he means the principle of ineligibility by which we know a thing as it is irrespective of that out of which it is made. Debate if plato understood forms existing in the mind. Aristotle corrects by taking out of heaven into mind. Believed there is one perfect thing for which all else is derived.
