
HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Socrates and the Theory of Forms
Theory of forms is basically the theory as we know it from works like the fito and the republic. Plato allows parmenides to pose a series of problems for the theory of forms. Parmenide's first series of questions is a kind of warm up to the main event. The jury is still very much out on the form of giraffe.
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