PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ibm Officevision, Cebes, Friedrich Nietzsche
7 Dec 2017
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Recall he shared last time that his professor tried to explain the relationship between the forms and the particulars. He was talking about the cookie cutter and the plain dough rolled on table and you impress the cutter on dough, stamp them and bake them. Then you can sort them out to how they approximate the star cookie cutter. The particulars participate in the form which gives them their name. There is a form for everything with a common name - form of man, beauty, etc. It is not too difficult to extend plato"s logic to ethical concepts. There is a form of justice, of beauty, of temperance, etc. Abstraction says we distill the essence from what we perceive various particulars having in common. We see this blue thing and then we see another blue thing and then a third and then we abstract, distill, take out the essential part and we throw out the rest.
