Mar 2, 2022
6 min read
Plato’s Doctrine of Ideas and his Lost Lectures
The Theory of the Forms was probably elaborated and mathematized — unfortunately we’ll never know exactly how or why.
In the Dialogues, Plato (429–347 BCE) articulated his Theory of the Forms or Doctrine of Ideas. According to the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, knowledge (episteme) and…
