On Ideas as Forms

 I have a firm belief that the a priori spirit or 'soul' of existence could be described as a "Universal Idea-Form".  Ideas, I will lay out here, are not things that we create as human beings, but rather we are developed, culminated or Created by Ideas.  The ideas we claim to have ourselves are intrinsic to the universal reason-structural facilities of Creation.

Think of the idea of beauty, as Plato wrote about in his dialectics...

Beauty is the form of the world, a priori.

Think of a sunset, without a human to have a concept, or idea or perception of the form of beauty itself.

Would it still exist?

This is generally known as the problem of solipsism, in which we ask the question - "What is the world?"

"How do we know there is a world?"

"How do we know that we- ourselves -even really exist?"

I would say the idea of creation and idea of a world of forms, gives us access to a kind of speculative freedom about the fundamental meanings of existence as such.

The sunset described above,

is- a priori -a 'form'.

We have a perception of the sunset, but we can recognize that our perception isn't necessarily representative of anything other than an idea.  But if we make the connection between 'ideas' and 'forms' we can succinctly solve the problem of solipsism.

The world of 'forms' is part of a universal 'Reason Facility", where our cognitive faculties understand and apprehend the forms of the world through our own ideas.

Ideas could be anything,

like an idea about form,

or an idea or apprehension of a form.

or even a creation of forms as engagements with the faculties in our involvements.

The noble Socrates said once, famously, that Love is a formed physical almost entity-like phenomena.

Think of that.

Love is not just a feeling!~

Love is an engagement with a type of Universal form,

that we involve ourselves passionately in by way of creation of Forms.

In the Bible,

We believe God loved his creation.

So to do we love ours!

Dos that imply that love is necessary for the development of a culture, species or nation?

Also too,

how does our Idea of love as Americans correspond with cultures very often different from our own'd conceptualization of love?  Are we to presume it is, as Bob Marley once sang, "One Love"?

I'd say there are certain brain activities or 'syndromes' that are characteristic to the expression of Love, and also to what we might call, the act of love.

So the effect of the act of Love is the self-reciprocating form.  Hence,

Ideas aren't something abstract,

yet something physical, with laws governing their characteristics and behavior,

as physical forms.

Brendan O'Connell 2023