Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nominalism
16 Feb 2016
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When philosophers say platonism" they generally mean to refer to a view of plato"s often called his theory of forms". It involved over plato"s life, and involves both metaphysical and epistemological claims. We are looking at some arguments in an early dialogue, the phaedo. 1. the senses are unclear and inaccurate, and the body, generally, is a source of trouble (epistemological: we recognize e. g. absolute uprightness, beauty, goodness, tallness, health. 3: pure knowledge is unavailable in our lifetimes, when we are in the company of our it is not through the body that we get the truest" perception of them bodies. Phaedo 74a-77a there is such a thing as equality. 1: our knowledge of it does not come from particular examples, from experience. 3. therefore we must have had previous knowledge of equality (and all other absolutes" e. g. beauty goodness: so knowledge is recollection (and our souls exist before our births.
