RE: Do Chairs Exist?
September 21, 2021 at 9:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2021 at 12:04 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(September 20, 2021 at 8:39 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: What bothers me about the forms is a problem I reach when I contemplate them....we can parse up idealized forms of objects like this until the forms themselves become meaningless. ... So, I think Plato said something important with his notion of forms. But absurdity ensues when you try to accept the theory of forms as Plato presents it.
Plato was the proto-type...the neo-Platonists , like Plontinus, and the Scholastics refined and polished it....not that it's complete...far from....but what is missing from your analysis the relationship between formal and final causes. Purpose (degree of fitness to an aim) and value (goodness) are the glue that holds forms together. What is a heart except an organ for [insert function] pumping blood, etc.?
Just like the center of gravity is just one of many points...nevertheless one point can be differenciated by purpose.
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