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Single Idea 191

[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance ]

Full Idea

Everything resembles everything else up to a point.

Gist of Idea

Everything resembles everything else up to a point

Source

Plato (Protagoras [c.380 BCE], 331d)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Protagoras and Meno', ed/tr. Guthrie,W K C [Penguin 1956], p.64


The 13 ideas from 'Protagoras'

Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato]
If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato]
If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato]
Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato]
Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato]
Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato]
The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato]
Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato]
The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato]
People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato]
No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato]
Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato]
Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato]