Phil Forum : Plato's Forms require God?

[Gnomon]

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussi ... ent/347539

I think I am of the belief that in order for Plato's theory of the forms to be true then there must be a God or in other words that Plato's theory can't be true without the existence of a God. God's essence would therefore be the form of the Good that he talks about. — username

I suspect that Plato also assumed a universal god-like Mind as the source of all Forms. But his notion of that Eternal Essence was more like an impersonal organizing force or necessity, such as the "Logos". So, I also interpret his argument for "The Good" to be referring to "The Ideal" or "The Perfect", instead of a divine being. Yet, the same reasoning could be used to prove the existence of absolute "Evil". Likewise, that we can imagine the "greatest conceivable mind/being", proves nothing about existence, but merely our ability to imagine, to generalize, and to idealize.

Nevertheless, I too have concluded that a theory of Absolute Universal MIND is necessary to explain the existence of relative actual minds. Instead of saying that the god-mind exists, which is true only relative to all other "beings", I insist that what-I-call "G*D" is absolute "BEING" : the power of existence. All other concepts or Forms follow from that. No room for "third man" or infinite regress arguments.

With basic existence established, all other proposed Beings or Forms or Things can be discussed. But most of our other concepts contain an inherent paradox. If the Greatest Good exists necessarily, then the Greatest Evil must also exist. So, I infer that all such arguments are circular. Yet, I find that assuming Cosmic MIND as an axiom allows me to reason about the role of Forms and Information in the world. And that is the basis of my Enformationism worldview. http://enformationism.info/enformationism.info/