... , meaning the origin; and the final cause, meaning the goal or the end point (Irwin 127). The theory of final causes makes sense for man made things, such as chairs, because chairs for example we're made so they could be sat on. However, natural processes and organisms seem to have no creator. Surprisingly enough, Aristotle explains that not all final causes ... ...

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... truly defines a thing. By the time of the Republic, Plato had come around to the view that everything had Forms--not just virtues, but tangible things like beds, chairs, etc. We are surrounded by chairs, but there is a single Form of the "chair" that is common to all of them and makes them what they are. The other thing we need to ... ...

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... word or concept to many different objects. Let us take for example, how can the word chair be used for all the individual objects in the physical world that are chairs? I think Plato answered this question correctly by saying that various things can be called by the same name because they all have something in common. He called this common factor ... the thing's form. So I agree with Plato in that this solves the problem of how objects in the material world are all distinct, that no two chairs are exactly the same, yet they all have `chairness' in common. There are different objects ref...

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... to tell about something the author wants to reveal. And much is revealed in The Cave. The setting is, most appropriately, in a cave. At the bottom are men sitting in chairs. They are bound so they cannot move from their seats, or move their heads and are forced to wear blinders so that they can only see directly ahead of them ... ...

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