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Critically examine Plato’s theory of Forms.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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The Theory of Forms, developed in Plato's middle dialogues (Phaedo, Symposium, Republic V–VII), holds that the true objects of knowledge are eternal, unchanging essences, not the shifting things we perceive. It is metaphysics with a political purpose: it supplies the credentials of the philosopher-ruler. The metaphysics has failed; its question survives.

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