Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nominalism
16 May 2016
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Platonism: 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 involved both metaphysical claims and epistemological claims. We are looking at some arguments in an early dialogue, the phaedo. Phaedo 65a-67c: the senses are unclear and inaccurate (and the body, generally, is a source of trouble). Socrates says that we all have this experience. The body is the source of war and trouble. This is an epistemological claim; a claim that the senses are not accurate or clear: we recognize absolute uprightness (beauty, goodness, tallness, health) We have an idea of something that is completely good, or completely health, and unaltered ambiguous conception of something. The world has things to which we attribute properties, and we have an idea of something that is the most of those things (as good as something can possibly be)
