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Single Idea 307
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Full Idea
Whenever the maker of anything keeps his eye on the eternally unchanging and uses it as his pattern for the form and function of his product the result must be good.
Gist of Idea
Something will always be well-made if the maker keeps in mind the eternal underlying pattern
Source
Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 28b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.40
The
26 ideas
with the same theme
[Plato's separate reality of pure ideas]:
7996
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I am all the beauty and goodness of things, says Krishna
[Anon (Bhag)]
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1652
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Socrates did not consider universals or definitions as having separate existence, but Plato made Forms of them
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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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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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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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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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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360
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We must have a prior knowledge of equality, if we see 'equal' things and realise they fall short of it
[Plato]
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154
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We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms
[Plato]
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12043
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Forms are not universals, as they don't cover every general term
[Plato, by Annas]
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5094
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Plato's Forms are said to have no location in space
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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2159
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Craftsmen making furniture refer to the form, but no one manufactures the form of furniture
[Plato]
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16122
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Good thinkers spot forms spread through things, or included within some larger form
[Plato]
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10422
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The not-beautiful is part of the beautiful, though opposed to it, and is just as real
[Plato]
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1607
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Diotima said the Forms are the objects of desire in philosophical discourse
[Plato, by Roochnik]
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12042
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Plato's Forms were seen as part of physics, rather than of metaphysics
[Plato, by Annas]
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307
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Something will always be well-made if the maker keeps in mind the eternal underlying pattern
[Plato]
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318
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In addition to the underlying unchanging model and a changing copy of it, there must also be a foundation of all change
[Plato]
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321
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For knowledge and true opinion to be different there must be Forms; otherwise we are just stuck with sensations
[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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10948
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Forms are said to be substances to which nothing is prior
[Aristotle]
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17945
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Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible
[Nehamas]
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4472
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Redness is independent of red things, can do without them, has its own properties, and has identity
[Moreland]
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