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Single Idea 220
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Full Idea
Mastership in the abstract is mastership of slavery in the abstract.
Gist of Idea
The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave
Source
Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 133e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.225
The
36 ideas
from 'Parmenides'
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic
[Hegel on Plato]
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13986
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Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations
[Plato, by Ryle]
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14150
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made
[Russell on Plato]
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21821
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many
[Plato, by Plotinus]
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16151
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work
[Plato, by Frede,M]
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15846
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In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts
[Plato, by Harte,V]
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210
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt
[Plato]
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211
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well
[Plato]
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212
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it
[Plato]
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213
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once
[Plato]
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214
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great
[Plato]
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215
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought
[Plato]
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216
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea
[Plato]
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217
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress)
[Plato]
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218
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation
[Plato]
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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute
[Plato]
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220
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave
[Plato]
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221
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us
[Plato]
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222
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Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it
[Plato]
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223
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion
[Plato]
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224
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When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect
[Plato]
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13259
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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one
[Plato]
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225
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The unlimited has no shape and is endless
[Plato]
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The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration
[Plato]
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One is, so numbers exist, so endless numbers exist, and each one must partake of being
[Plato]
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Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part
[Plato]
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227
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name
[Plato]
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228
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things
[Plato]
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229
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become
[Plato]
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Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many
[Plato]
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231
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Everything partakes of the One in some way
[Plato]
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15849
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Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not
[Plato, by Harte,V]
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15851
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Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form
[Plato]
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232
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Opposites are as unlike as possible
[Plato]
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233
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Some things do not partake of the One
[Plato]
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234
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We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it
[Plato]
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