Rhees shows that Plato's forms can neither be thought of by analogy with 'ultimate' particles in physics, nor as fixed concepts which determine what can and cannot be said. Finally, D. Z. Phillips includes two treatments by Rhees of the Republic separated by fifteen years.
Rhees asks that if the existence of reality cannot be denied, then how can it be asserted either? Does it make sense to say that reality... Læs mere