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Single Idea 215

[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking ]

Full Idea

If all things partake of ideas, must either everything be made of thoughts and everything thinks, or everything is thought, and so can't think?

Gist of Idea

If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 132c)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.219