I enjoy the Greek intellectual tradition although I do not ascribe to it. What am I? an academic
This is a mundane question, but why do people enjoy Plato's theory of forms despite not considering them to be constitutive of the reality they inhabit? Is it because Plato is simply just a great prose artist, or that the spirit of his enquiries is attractive, or that it has an highly imaginative flavor to it, or what? I've always struggled with this question, because I just don't get how we enjoy philosophical concepts in literature we don't believe "exists" (in the primitive sense of the word, not the Blakean).
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It's because IQfy posters are pseuds and midwits and so are academics
You are on the fence of being blue-pilled and red-pilled. One more step is needed anon.
>Is it because Plato is simply just a great prose artist, or that the spirit of his enquiries is attractive, or that it has an highly imaginative flavor to it, or what?
You missed that it's intuitively plausible. We deal with chairs on a daily basis and it appeals to us that our intuitions about them are reflective of fundamental reality. The forms are just commonsense elevated to some type of deep truth. That is why people get so mad when you point out what bullshit they are since common sense is so appealing.
>What am I?
An American. You subscribe rather to the Hebraic, mildly antinomian (in the legal sense, not so much in the theological) mainline Protestant view of matters whether vital or literary or whatever other redundancy.
>prose artist
>prose stylist
>ἐποχή
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My take away's more: ki yi yippy yi yay because what I derive from that pen approximates the word...cowgirl. I'm probably wrong, too lazy to check
Because people sense a truth still in it. Even if, hypothetically, it's from putting yourself in the culture of another.
Back to the Sorbonne! (with you)
>Is it because Plato is simply just a great prose artist, or that the spirit of his enquiries is attractive, or that it has an highly imaginative flavor to it, or what?
It's all of those things. Because Plato's greatness shows itself in numerous ways.
You shouldn't let your intellect castrate your imagination so.
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>What am I?
a cuckademic
>cuckademic
>adenoma
LMFAO
>an academic
It's ironic that the pic here is of Franz Brentano who ascribed himself to Aristotle and defended his positions.
>why do people enjoy Plato's theory of forms despite not considering them to be constitutive of the reality they inhabit?
They are told over and over that The Greeks Are Important and all western philosophy is just Footnotes To Plato (pbuh), so they assume there must be something to it even if it doesn't match their view of reality.