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Single Idea 231

[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One ]

Full Idea

The others are not altogether deprived of the one, for they partake of it in some way.

Gist of Idea

Everything partakes of the One in some way

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 157c)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.301

A Reaction

Compare Idea 233.

Related Idea

Idea 233 Some things do not partake of the One [Plato]

The 20 ideas with the same theme [nature is really a single perfect object]:

1640 The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato]
424 Reason tells us that all things are one [Heraclitus]
5081 There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water [Aristotle on Parmenides]
1509 The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing [Parmenides, by Simplicius]
20900 Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being [Parmenides, by Aristotle]
226 The one is without any kind of motion [Parmenides]
555 People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement [Aristotle on Parmenides]
1505 Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many [Aristotle on Parmenides]
453 Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another [Parmenides]
21823 The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless [Empedocles, by Plotinus]
2062 The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration [Plato]
231 Everything partakes of the One in some way [Plato]
233 Some things do not partake of the One [Plato]
616 It doesn't explain the world to say it was originally all one. How did it acquire diversity? [Aristotle]
21814 How can multiple existence arise from the unified One? [Plotinus]
21815 Because the One is immobile, it must create by radiation, light the sun producing light [Plotinus]
21816 Soul is the logos of Nous, just as Nous is the logos of the One [Plotinus]
6406 Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity [Bradley]
17692 We can't deduce the phenomena from the One [Armstrong]
12246 What makes Parmenidean reality a One rather than a Many? [Oderberg]