Ancient Philosophical Influences

Question 1

Critiques of Plato’s World of Forms

Answer 1

• unprovable
• there are other ways to account for the persistence of ideas like beauty and justice through time and across generations (memes- the viral spreading of ideas, dawkins)
• If things come from forms, where do forms come from? (aristotle, third man argument)
• How and why are forms linked between the physical world and the world of forms?
• He is not clear about what forms are (e.g. what about things that were just invented, what about extremely specific things)