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Introduction
Plato expounded his Theory of Forms over a writing career of some forty years. The theory was being refined over this period and is never fully explained in any one dialogue. Thus, any explanation of the theory, involves piecing together fragments as they appear throughout Plato's writings, and recasting the earlier statements in the light of the metaphysical framework developed in the later works.
General Statement of the Theory of Forms
The theory basically claims the existence of a level of reality or "world" inhabited by the ideal or archetypal forms of all things and concepts. Therefore a form exists, for objects like tables and rocks and also for concepts, such as beauty and justice.
The forms are eternal and changeless, but enter into a partnership with changeable matter, to produce the objects and examples of concepts, we perceive in the temporary world. These are always in a state of becoming, and may participate in a succession of forms. The ever changing......

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