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Single Idea 17947
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Full Idea
Plato came to the conclusion that virtue and happiness consist in the life of philosophy itself.
Gist of Idea
Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life
Source
report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Alexander Nehamas - Eristic,Antilogic,Sophistic,Dialectic p.117
Book Ref
Nehamas,Alexander: 'Virtues of Authenticity' [Princeton 1999], p.117
A Reaction
This view is obviously ridiculous, because it largely excludes almost the entire human race, which sees philosophy as a cul-de-sac, even if it is good. But virtue and happiness need some serious thought.
The
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For Plato true wisdom is supernatural
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3060
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Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books
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23891
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Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them
[Plato, by Weil]
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14502
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Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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557
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A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause
[Aristotle on Plato]
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13261
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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565
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things
[Aristotle on Plato]
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20906
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Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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17948
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Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue
[Plato, by Nehamas]
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3039
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When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect
[Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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556
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If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common
[Aristotle on Plato]
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563
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If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars
[Aristotle on Plato]
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9607
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The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects
[Brown,JR on Plato]
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13263
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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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13265
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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593
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Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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13260
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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11237
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Only universals have essence
[Plato, by Politis]
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11238
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Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is
[Plato, by Politis]
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17085
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A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required)
[Plato, by Ruben]
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1526
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Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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1651
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Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions
[Vlastos on Plato]
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3324
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech
[Benardete,JA on Plato]
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7503
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Plato never refers to examining the conscience
[Plato, by Foucault]
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9274
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
[Plato, by Gray]
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2173
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As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul
[Williams,B on Plato]
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94
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Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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17947
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Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life
[Plato, by Nehamas]
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6015
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Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable
[Plato, by Kraut]
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2912
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Plato is boring
[Nietzsche on Plato]
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