And that, ultimately, is Tagore's lasting legacy: a raised hand against all forms of rigidity, a love of country that is born out of its landscape and seasons; and a spiritual universe that encompasses a plurality of forms.
Hence we can speak of a "plurality of forms".
In another type of demonstration, the middle term may be a definition of a concrete subject obliquely referring to its parts without any determination, namely in demonstrations concerning animals and human beings, in which the reality contains a plurality of forms.
If there is a plurality of forms, this sort of demonstration nonetheless falls short of the highest sort, for it concerns only the concretum, the concrete instance that has several forms, not the substance considered in itself (simply as possessor of the form).
Since Bonaventure endorses, usually without any elaborate argumentation, the general claim that there is a plurality of substantial forms within any composite thing, his doctrine of light really means that light is the first form, endowing each thing with extension, and preparing the way for further perfections such as the forms of the elements or the forms of mixtures or compounds.
But he also links it, via the quotation from Aquinas, to the doctrine of universal hylomorphism.[22] Again, E. A. Synan [1993], p. 236, refers to Aquinas's denial that there can be a plurality of substantial forms in any given substance, and calls it a "rejection of one half of the binarium famosissimum".
He advocates a view of the human being as composite of a plurality of essentially different forms.
Must perfectionists be monists, holding that there is at bottom only one form of life that is best for all human beings; or can they hold that there exists a plurality of equally good forms of life for human beings?
Taken in contrast to the Aristotelian doctrine that each existent has a single substantial form (ensuring its unity as a substance), "the plurality of forms" doctrine describes the Universal Hylomorphic sense in which each existent has a number of essential forms (and matters).
In the context of this analysis, we might also say a word about the doctrine of "the plurality of forms," a doctrine associated with the Fons Vitae by later Christian scholastics.
Over time, the perspective of "integration", often the primary concern of funding institutions, evolved into a more articulated intercultural approach, abandoning the narrow label of "migrant" and opening up to a plurality of cultural cosmovisions, methods, forms, expressions and languages.
