Causality and Forms: Plato vs Aquinas

One of the great bodies of work to which the philosopher Plato dedicated his energies was the notion of forms. The ancient Greek took a cue from his philosophical predecessor Heraclitus. Plato adopted the Heraclitianistic notion that there was a quasi-incoherence in the natural world, but Plato upheld the idea only in part. For Heraclitus…