Sentences with phrase «eternal ideal form»
When people think about a category like «dog» or «ant,» they often subconsciously believe that there is a well - defined boundary around the category, or that there is some eternal ideal form (for philosophers, the Platonic idea) which defines the category.
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The justification for any relevance extending beyond actuality would have to depend upon the internal relatedness of the eternal objects ordered as a realm, The occasion incorporates these new elements in forming its «ideal of itself by reference to eternal principles of valuation.»
Moreover, sensa are declared to have some form of realization that differs from that of patterns: «But the realization of a sensum in its ideal shallowness of intensity, with zero width, does not require any other eternal object, other than its intrinsic apparatus of individual and relational essence; it can remain just itself, with its unrealized potentialities for patterned contrasts» (PR 115 / 176).
Indeed, as Ford himself admits, the concept of God as the conceptual valuation of eternal objects was already present in Religion in the Making, Whitehead's previous book.36 There Whitehead wrote about God that» [t] his ideal world of conceptual harmonization is merely a description of God himself,» then added that «the nature of God is the complete conceptual realization of the realm of ideal forms» (154).
The claim is that, in order for the process of actualization to be possible at all, «antecedent limitations» must be applied to the multiplicity of possibilities, and these are carried out in the «conceptual envisagement» of the total multiplicity of eternal objects, or ideal forms, by God.
Plato (c.428 - 348 BcE), for example, regarded the «inspired utterances of poets and prophets as, at best, symbolical adumbrations or shadows of truth and, at worse, the source of degrading superstitions».3 Fundamental to Plato's thought is the conviction that truth can not be found in everyday life and sensible reality, but in a more real or ideal realm of unchangeable or eternal forms, which are the blueprint and pattern of the world.