theory of forms

Philosophy 105
Summery Paper
Joel Hahn

Theory of Forms

In our bodies or in our minds there lye’s the answer to all knowledge. Even though we can not see knowledge we do know knowledge that it is there. Our senses interrupt the very underlying workings of our thoughts. The forms make us misinterpret many things that would otherwise seem real. This is our hindrance, our prison to which we are embodied for life.
Forms are the matter that makes what we can not see, to become real, or what our senses respond to the experience of forms. Our minds perceive such properties as triangular or circular. Even though we don’t have any perception of them, forms are the matter our minds perceive as reality. Even though we never actually experience them, true knowledge is our perception of the forms themselves.
According to Socrates the forms do not change, they are immortal. The forms are idea of the world and all its mysteriousness. Socrates believed that every soul has all t...