Crit of Plato
by Sam Cooke
1. Guidelines
1.1. Anything goes!
1.2. No criticism or flaming allowed
1.3. The Wilder The Better
1.4. Quantity is Quality
1.5. Set a Time Limit
2. Plato's Cave
2.1. No evidence for the cave
2.2. Negative view of physicality and change
3. Theory of Forms
3.1. Vagueness about the forms
3.1.1. Are there negative forms?
3.1.2. is there a form of everything?
3.2. Not everyone agrees what is good- relativism seems to reject P's notion of the form of good.
3.3. The third man argument
4. Belief in the immortal Soul
4.1. Does everything have to have an opposite?
4.2. The state of existence known as death, may not be a state at all- death is annihilation
4.3. Where is the physical evidence for the world of forms?
4.4. Knowledge can be said to be based on the empirical senses, not reason and thus we can reject the theory recollection
