Posted by Casper S Damsgaard on April 10, 19103 at 05:26:31:
In Reply to: plato and matter posted by human with keyboard on February 19, 19103 at 21:18:30:
Matter is temporal, the forms are eternal, hence the forms are primary, and thus existed before matter.
Matter would have to be understood in the terms of Aristotle to bring way to your interpretation: Here it is called substance - udifferentiated plain being.
The unformed matter is a non-existing concept in the Platonian philosophy. Matter always presents itself to us in relations and with characteristics - never undifferentiated. Plato never concieved the substance as a precondition of the determinations of matter.
According to the Platonian dualism; the soul and the forms are both a part of the realm of forms; they are both intelligible being. The body and our surroundings are both parts of the realm of matter. It's through the comprehension of the intellect that the matter is ascribed with predicates. Thus matter in itself is meaningless, it is only through the intellect, that meaning arises. In this sense matter is inferior...
The two last questions are imcomprehensible to me... I simply don't understand what you are asking.