In Reply to: Plato's Forms posted by Kris on April 22, 192002 at 18:18:35:
plato's theory of forms applies today in a lot of ways; his idea of forms could apply to the very thoughts that you conjure in your head to car that you drive everyday. it's a rule that you can't know or think of anything that doesn't exist, you can only know things that are ( things that exist within themselves, our natural, permanent, and unchanging reality.)
our reality is constantly changing, even today, it's been changing sense the begining of our existence, and according to Plato's theory anything that is changable is qualified to be apart of the world of the becoming (our world, the changable world, objects get created and destroyed, organisms die, people grow old and change in their apperance and move from place to place, so our world can't possibly be real, kind of an illusion in a way.) anything in our world, any created object, and concept, idea or senseibility isn't real, because they go into the category of the becoming, a world that can't be what the forms already are, naturalized and pure, and real!!!! anything that's changable isn't real, anything that you can think of. just think of how many new words, and policies, and technologies get created everyday.