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Inquiry, Forms, and Substances - A Study in Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Inquiry, Forms, and Substances - A Study in Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 62
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i. Introductory remarks 1 Plato, but not Socrates, concluded that
the Forms are substances. Whether the Forms are substances is not
an issue that Socrates had in mind. He did not deny it, but neither
did he affirm it. If Socrates were asked a series of questions
designed to determine whether he believed that the Forms are
substances, he would admit that he had no opinion about this
philosophical issue. Unlike Plato, Socrates was not a
metaphysician. The same, of course, would not have always been true
of Plato. Unlike Socrates, he was a metaphysician. At some point in
his career, and at least by the time of the Phaedo and the
Republic, Plato did what Socrates never thought to do. Plato
considered the question and concluded that the Forms are
substances. Although this development occurred more than two
thousand years ago, time has not eclipsed its importance. It is one
of the most seminal events in the history of the philosophy. With
his defense of Socrates's method of intellectual inquiry, and the
development of his Theory of Forms, Plato caused a now familiar
cluster of metaphysical and epistemological issues to become
central to philosophy.
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