PHI 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Empirical Evidence, Glaucon, Thought Experiment
2 Sep 2014
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Plato (1 question) -influenced by socrates -continues with the philos ophies of. Socrates merely expands and fine tunes -according the plato, the s tate of. Athens is an unjus t s tate, didn"t have good laws , nor did it have the right people charge to run s tate (ie the s tate was not correctly ordered) -plato writes "the. Republic" a utopian blueprint for a jus t or ideal s ociety. World of forms (intelligible world) the more important reality-is not s ubject to change. A reality of forms which are objects of thought, like the idea of a circle, and are not in s pace and time-thes e forms are eternal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------the world of s ens e experience (vis ible world) reality of phys ical objects in s pace and time- objects of the s ens es in flux, always changing, experiencing growth and decay.
