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Idealism opposites
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Essay Question # 3: Compare And Contrast Submitted by: Serena Rogers # A031489 Submitted To: Edith Farkas Course: Humanities: Knowledge & Authority Submitted On: December 10.02 “The Faces Of Idealism” by Serena Rogers Platonic Idealism is the view that ideas are independent of the thinking mind; existing incorporeally without sequence or co- existence, and that ideal forms (perfect ideas) exist eternally and absolutely. Plato thought that ideas were permanent and more real than material things because material things were in constant transition ( state of change). Plato’s Theory of Forms defines forms or ideas as existing in sets. The set encompasses the idea itself and all particular things which have the common denominator of that idea. Each particular thing participates in the set of the form, and if any one of the particulars were to cease, the form would remain. This theory is discussed in The Republic Of Plato through the example of the set of beauty and infinite beautiful particulars. It explains that a Form (ie. Beauty) itself, excludes it’s opposite; Ugliness. Beauty does not have the potential to ever become ugly, but any particular beautiful thing does have the ability to be or become ugly in a certain situation or aspect. That particular is open to opinion and can be viewed as ugly. The Form of Beauty does not share these possibilities with it’s particulars. “ That since beauty and ugliness are opposite, they are two things; and consequently each of them is one.” - Plato. The Republic Of Plato. London: Oxford University Press, 1945.p 183 Both Platonic Idealism and Totalitarian Idealism are based on the view that the material world of things has little, if any significance, and that ideas are omni-important. Plato was very strong about this point, he encouraged men to constantly analyze, re- analyze, argue and prove either arguments they themselves had introduced, or already existing philosophies. He did not think that physical evidence could be the basis for any proof because all physical and material things/objects were constantly changing.
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