Socrates's metaphor of the three beds
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| Plato discusses [[form]]s in the ''[[Republic]]'', Book X, by using real things, such as a [[bed]], for example, and calls each way a bed has been made, a "[[bedness]]". He commences with the original form of a bed, one of a variety of ways a bed may have been constructed by a craftsman and compares that form with an ideal form of a bed, of a perfect [[archetype]] or image in the form of which beds ought to be made, in short the [[epitome]] of bedness. | Plato discusses [[form]]s in the ''[[Republic]]'', Book X, by using real things, such as a [[bed]], for example, and calls each way a bed has been made, a "[[bedness]]". He commences with the original form of a bed, one of a variety of ways a bed may have been constructed by a craftsman and compares that form with an ideal form of a bed, of a perfect [[archetype]] or image in the form of which beds ought to be made, in short the [[epitome]] of bedness. | ||
| - | In his analogy one bedness form shares its own bedness - with all its shortcomings - with that of the ideal form, or template. A third bedness, too, may share the ideal form. He continues with the fourth form also containing elements of the ideal template/archetype which in this way remains an ever-present and invisible ideal version with which the craftsman compares his work. As bedness after bedness shares the ideal form and template of all creation of beds, and each bedness is associated with another [[ad infinitum]], it is called an "[[infinite regress of forms]]". | + | In his analogy one bedness form shares its own bedness - with all its shortcomings - with that of the ideal form, or template. A third bedness, too, may share the ideal form. He continues with the fourth form also containing elements of the ideal template/archetype which in this way remains an ever-present and invisible ideal version with which the craftsman compares his work. As bedness after bedness shares the ideal form and template of all creation of beds, and each bedness is associated with another [[ad infinitum]], it is called an "[[infinite regress]] of forms". |
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| *[[Platonic idealism]] | *[[Platonic idealism]] | ||
| + | *[[Theory of forms]] | ||
| *[[Two steps removed from the truth]] | *[[Two steps removed from the truth]] | ||
| *[[Socrates's metaphor of the three beds]] | *[[Socrates's metaphor of the three beds]] | ||
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Plato's "bedness" analogy is the beginning of ekphrasis
Plato discusses forms in the Republic, Book X, by using real things, such as a bed, for example, and calls each way a bed has been made, a "bedness". He commences with the original form of a bed, one of a variety of ways a bed may have been constructed by a craftsman and compares that form with an ideal form of a bed, of a perfect archetype or image in the form of which beds ought to be made, in short the epitome of bedness.
In his analogy one bedness form shares its own bedness - with all its shortcomings - with that of the ideal form, or template. A third bedness, too, may share the ideal form. He continues with the fourth form also containing elements of the ideal template/archetype which in this way remains an ever-present and invisible ideal version with which the craftsman compares his work. As bedness after bedness shares the ideal form and template of all creation of beds, and each bedness is associated with another ad infinitum, it is called an "infinite regress of forms".
See also
- Platonic idealism
- Theory of forms
- Two steps removed from the truth
- Socrates's metaphor of the three beds
