Platonic Realism

Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas

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Updated: 10 Aug 2013

I discuss Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas. Plato's Forms/Ideas are "universals", general, abstract things, in contrast with concrete material things. The Fo...

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Realism and anti-realism III: Plato, idealist or realist?

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Students are often confused about the question whether Plato was an "idealist" or a "realist". He has this theory of "Ideas" (or "Forms") - in contrast with ...

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10 Great Quotes From Plato

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Thanks goes to goodreads.com for the quotes. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato (Πλάτων) Full name Plato (Πλάτων) Born c. 428--427 BC[1] Athens Di...

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How to Pronounce Realism

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Updated: 28 May 2013

Learn how to say Realism correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. Definition of realism (oxford dictionary): noun [mass noun] 1the ...

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How to Pronounce Realist

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Learn how to say Realist correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. Definition of realism v noun [mass noun] 1the attitude or practic...

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How to Pronounce Realists

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Learn how to say Realists correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. Definition of realism (oxford dictionary): noun [mass noun] 1the...

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Plato Idealism & aesthetics 1 .mov

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Updated: 16 Apr 2013

This is a little lecture on some of the issues around Platonic Idealism & it's impact on Aesthetic theory. It's mostly taken from Monroe Beardsley's reading ...

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Plato's cave and the sun

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I discuss Plato's Allegory of the Cave and his Metaphor of the Sun. I explain how the cave is a metaphor for Plato's skepticism about the senses and how the ...

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Realism and anti-realism I: Absolutism and relativism

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Updated: 24 Jul 2013

This is the first tutorial on the realism debate. "Realists" believe that some "reality" exists independently of our mind or our thinking about this reality....

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How to Pronounce Realistically

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Learn how to say Realistically correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. Definition of realism (oxford dictionary): noun [mass noun]...

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Philosophy of Mathematics: Platonism

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Updated: 05 Oct 2013

A non-technical introduction to platonism in the philosophy of mathematics. Philosophy of mathematics is important, especially for philosophers interested in metaphysics. Suppose, for instance, you have nominalist tendencies, and you argue against the existence of abstract objects. Well, probably the most important kind of abstract objects are found in mathematics. Any serious nominalist needs to give an account of them. Yet philosophy of mathematics is also, for obvious reasons, quite technical, and it can be pretty daunting for those who have less mathematical training. Nevertheless, I think the basic arguments can be made accessible to anyone who's interested, and that's what I've tried to do in this video. For further reading on phil of mathematics, I recommend: "Thinking About Mathematics" by Stewart Shapiro and "Introducing Philosophy of Mathematics" by Michele Friend. These are both fairly orthodox introductions. For an introduction that focuses more on contemporary issues (it has just a few pages devoted to formalism, logicism, and intuitionism, yet a whole chapter on paraconsistent mathematics), I recommend "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics" by Mark Colyvan. There is some debate about how exactly to formulate the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument. In this video, I've followed Colyvan (see his aforementioned "Introduction"). Re 43:26: I'm not sure why I said that. Obviously, Von Neumann did not hold the absurd belief that every ordinal *is* the ordinal before it; rather he believed that every ordinal is *the set of* all ordinals before it. Re 1:01:18: I should have noted at this point that in her book "Realism in Mathematics", Maddy spends quite a bit of time answering objection (1). Plenitudinous platonism is also known by the name "full-blooded platonism". Mark Balaguer's exposition of it can be found in "Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics". This book is also the source of the third objection to Maddy's views, about the difficulties of avoiding the aggregate theory of sets. The objection is explained in somewhat more detail there. I said that I consider PP the most interesting form of platonism. This is not quite true. In my opinion, PP is not plenitudinous enough. The problem is that it allows only *consistent* theories. Those of us who are friends of paraconsistency will consider this an unwelcome restriction. Beall presents a more liberal form of PP in this short paper: http://homepages.uconn.edu/~jcb02005/papers/fbplatonism.pdf

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Olympic Week at Plato Academy Opening Ceremony 2012 - Full Version

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Updated: 29 Jun 2013

Olympic Week Opening Ceremony 2012 at Plato Academy Clearwater - Full Ceremony.

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Realism and anti-realism II: Materialism and idealism

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Duration: 8:33
Updated: 13 Aug 2013

This is the second in a series of tutorials on the realism debate. Here, I discuss idealism as an anti-realist philosophy. Idealists claim that there is no m...

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In defense of Plato and Idealism

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response to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9vk1Bd_pk 0ThouArtThat0's webcam video June 23, 2011 11:47 PM.

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2013 Rey Ty: Philosophy of Plato

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Updated: 17 Jun 2013

Rey Ty.

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#46 The Problem of Universals

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Updated: 16 Jul 2013

Part 10 of the knowledge series. How fallacious solutions to the problem of universals undercut both logic and human rights. Extreme Realism (Platonism, Neop...

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Metaphysical Realism, Hermeneutics, and Gadamer

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Updated: 08 Sep 2013

Lauren Barthold presented this talk at Gordon College.

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Idealismo

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Updated: 22 Nov 2013

Lucia Margarita de la Rosa Cosme Pedagogia 101

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Meta Ethics - Part 1, Moral Realism

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Updated: 26 Apr 2013

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-non-naturalism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism-moral/ ...

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Anti Realism THEA110 MSU

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Updated: 20 Jun 2013

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Idealism vs. Realism

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Updated: 27 Feb 2013

Discussing the real difference between idealism and realism.

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Painting Time Lapse - The allegory of the sun

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Updated: 06 Oct 2013

https://www.facebook.com/mike.chatzianastasiadisart https://www.facebook.com/MikeChatzianastasiadisPainter?ref=hl The Metaphor of the Sun — also known as the Simile of the Sun— is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic Book VI, 507b-509c. It is written as a dialogue between Glaucon (Plato's brother) and Socrates, narrated by the latter. It draws a parallel between the sun as the source of illumination of visible objects, and the Form of the Good as the source of intellectual illumination of all Forms. The metaphor illustrates the nature of Plato's ultimate reality and how knowledge is acquired concerning it. The character Socrates is the main speaker of The Republic, but it is generally agreed that the thoughts expressed are Plato's. The eye, Plato says, is unusual among the sense organs in that it needs a medium, namely light, in order to operate. The strongest and best source of light is the sun; with it, objects can be discerned clearly. Analogous things, he writes, can be said of intelligible objects (i.e., the fixed and eternal forms that are the ultimate objects of scientific and philosophical study): When [the soul] is firmly fixed on the domain where truth and reality shine resplendent it apprehends and knows them and appears to possess reason, but when it inclines to that region which is mingled with darkness, the world of becoming and passing away, it opines only and its edge is blunted, and it shifts its opinions hither and thither, and again seems as if it lacked reason. (The Republic bk. VI, 508d; trans. Paul Shorey) By "the world of becoming and passing away" Plato means the familiar visual or perceptual world we see around us. Thus if we attempt to understand why things are as they are, and what general categories can be used to understand various particulars around us, without reference to any forms (universals), we will fail completely, as if [we] lacked reason. By contrast, "the domain where truth and reality shine resplendent" is none other than Plato's world of forms--illuminated by the highest of the forms, that of the Good. Since true being resides in the world of the forms, we must direct our intellects there to have knowledge, in Plato's view; otherwise, we are stuck with mere opinion of what may be likened to passing shadows. Plato also says the sun and the Good ("the object of knowledge") are both sources of "generation": The sun ... not only furnishes to those that see the power of visibility but it also provides for their generation and growth and nurture though it is not itself generation. ... In like manner, then ... the objects of knowledge not only receive from the presence of the good their being known, but their very existence and essence is derived to them from it, though the good itself is not essence but still transcends essence in dignity and surpassing power. (509b) This is one of the passages that leads some to infer that the Good is, for Plato, God, though there is some dispute about this point. (Plato refers to the Sun as a divinity and claims that it is the child of goodness). Many modern readers will find it puzzling that one and the same thing is called the Good, the source of being (the being of the forms, at least), something that (somehow) sheds light on all other forms, and a universal. Indeed, exactly how it is Plato thinks "very existence and essence is derived to [the forms] from" the Good is a matter of considerable interpretive difficulty. Incidentally, the metaphor of the sun exemplifies a traditional interrelation between metaphysics and epistemology: interpretations of fundamental existence create - and are created by - ways of knowing. It also neatly sums up two views for which Plato is well-known: his rationalism and his realism (about universals). Plato goes on to describe the levels of reality and knowledge with the device of the so-called "divided line" (509d-513e). Immediately afterward, at the beginning of Book VII (Benjamin Jowett trans.), the same doctrine is elaborated in the famous allegory of the cave (514a-520a).

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Neal Stephenson on Mathematical Platonism

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Full video available at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/09/Sci-Fi_Novelist_Neal_Stephenson_Anathem_Launch_Event Author Neal Stephenson discusses the philosophical concept of mathematical Platonism that appears throughout his novel ANATHEM. It is a belief in the constancy of mathematical concepts, irrespective of its discovery by people.

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