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message 1: by Mark, The Failed Philosopher (new)

Mark Burns (TheFailedPhilosopher) | 167 comments Mod
Are you a Platonist or an Aristotelian?


message 2: by schu (new)

schu Aristotelian, He believes that Form and Matter is needed to be a man. like Soul + Body = Man.


message 3: by schu (new)

schu And Also Everything we do leads to Happiness.


message 4: by Mark, The Failed Philosopher (new)

Mark Burns (TheFailedPhilosopher) | 167 comments Mod
The question was in reference to whether there are 'Forms' or not?


message 5: by schu (new)

schu Well, Plato believes that we live in a world of matter and everything is just a reflection of the world of forms.


message 6: by Mark, The Failed Philosopher (new)

Mark Burns (TheFailedPhilosopher) | 167 comments Mod
Yes whereas Aristotle never felt the need to add the second half of that sentence. Discuss.


message 7: by John (new)

John | 41 comments Ideal forms .no, but a logic better to handle relations yes-Russell and to replace static form/ essence tag with more correct family resemblances of W


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