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Single Idea 156
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
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Full Idea
It is not ordained that bad men should be friends with one another.
Gist of Idea
Bad people are never really friends with one another
Source
Plato (Phaedrus [c.368 BCE], 255b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.63
The
24 ideas
from 'Phaedrus'
23997
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Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming
[Plato, by Goldie]
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143
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The two ruling human principles are the natural desire for pleasure, and an acquired love of virtue
[Plato]
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144
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Reason impels us towards excellence, which teaches us self-control
[Plato]
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146
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Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal
[Plato]
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148
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If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything
[Plato]
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9296
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The soul is self-motion
[Plato]
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149
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There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings
[Plato]
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150
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We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves
[Plato]
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151
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True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience
[Plato]
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152
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The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth
[Plato]
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153
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It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions
[Plato]
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154
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We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms
[Plato]
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155
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Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms
[Plato]
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156
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Bad people are never really friends with one another
[Plato]
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157
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Most pleasure is release from pain, and is therefore not worthwhile
[Plato]
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158
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An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker
[Plato]
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159
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Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker
[Plato]
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7953
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Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints
[Plato]
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16121
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I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things
[Plato]
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160
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The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things
[Plato]
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162
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Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general?
[Plato]
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165
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If the apparent facts strongly conflict with probability, it is in everyone's interests to suppress the facts
[Plato]
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166
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A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility
[Plato]
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5946
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'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric
[Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
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