Form
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
ṣūrah · absolute beauty · absolute essence · form · intelligible forms · the good · the holy · the just · true being · الصور
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Forms“Beauty, the Good, the Just, the Holy”1 mention
Phaedo (Greek)
For our present argument is no more concerned with the equal than with absolute beauty and the absolute good and the just and the holy, and, in short, with all those things which we stamp with the seal of absolute in our dialectic process of questions and answers;
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The form received by a recipient, used first to distinguish the soul from bodies by the simultaneity of its reception, and then as what passes between and is retained in the ventricles of the brain.
whereas the soul can receive many intelligible forms in an instant (7) ( 10 )
As for the last cavity, it must incline to dryness, so that it may keep what is imprinted of the intelligible forms
and there the forms pass over from the common (1) to the cogitative.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The correlate of prime matter, distinguished into corporeal and specific form, identified with continuity in Ibn Sina's proof and used by Ibn Rushd to make matter eternal in species while originated in form.
And Ibn Rushd buttressed the eternity of matter in respect of species, and its origination in respect of form, with verses from the glorious Book, and sought thereby to deny real origination, that is, the emergence of a thing out of sheer nothingness — as in His words, exalted be He:
it has no shape and no pattern, and stands disposed to the receiving of forms;
In technical usage it is a substance in the body receptive of what befalls that body of conjunction and separation, the locus of the two forms, the corporeal and the specific.
Phaedo
The unchanging absolute essences (beauty, goodness, justice, holiness) contrasted with changing sensible things.
For our present argument is no more concerned with the equal than with absolute beauty and the absolute good and the just and the holy, and, in short, with all those things which we stamp with the seal of absolute in our dialectic process of questions and answers;
Is the absolute essence, which we in our dialectic process of question and answer call true being, always the same or is it liable to change?
But how about the many things, for example, men, or horses, or cloaks, or any other such things, which bear the same names as the absolute essences and are called beautiful or equal or the like?