The main thesis I intend to defend here is that,
although the Form of the Bed (in the Republic) is mentioned
as an intelligible Form, Plato does not intend to include such
a Form in his metaphysical hypothesis. Taking into account
the context of the argument allows us to understand why
the Form of the Bed is needed for the intellegibility of the
argumentation of Book X, though, as such, Forms of artifacts
should not be assumed as members of the family of Forms.
However, I suggest that the criticism of the imitative arts in
book X ultimately depends on the existence of the intelligible
as such and not of certain specific Forms.
