PHIL 230 Quiz: Philosophy 230 W4D1 Study Guide
31 Jan 2017
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114-122, plato (via his spokesperson socrates) provides more detail about his views regarding things such as the equal itself, the beautiful itself, the good itself, etc. (on p. 139. Phaedo refers to such things as the forms ). A stick that is equal to another stick will change throughout it"s life. You can not change what equal is, while something that is equal is readily available to alteration. The idea of beauty does not change, though how one sees beauty can. One person can find a person beautiful though someone else does not. A view can be beautiful in a different way than a person can be beautiful. Though these different applications of beautiful refer to types of beautiful, the form of beautiful does not change. Also, a person can be beautiful but become ugly. A view can be beautiful be become ugly. These changes do not change beautiful, but the applications of beautiful change.
