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Single Idea 332
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Full Idea
One should preserve a balance and avoid exercising the mind or body without the other; mathematicians should exercise physically, and athletes mentally.
Gist of Idea
One should exercise both the mind and the body, to avoid imbalance
Source
Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 88c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.118
A Reaction
Excellent, and very modern. Use it or lose it. It suggests that Plato had a fairly holistic view of a human being, and saw mind and body as closely integrated.
The
26 ideas
from 'Timaeus'
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Plato says the soul is ordered by number
[Plato, by Plutarch]
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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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20364
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The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming
[Plato]
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306
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Nothing can come to be without a cause
[Plato]
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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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308
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If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing
[Plato]
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309
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Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change
[Plato]
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310
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The creator of the cosmos had no envy, and so wanted things to be as like himself as possible
[Plato]
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311
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The cosmos must be unique, because it resembles the creator, who is unique
[Plato]
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312
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Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved
[Plato]
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314
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Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens
[Plato]
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315
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Philosophy is the supreme gift of the gods to mortals
[Plato]
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316
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Music has harmony like the soul, and serves to reorder disharmony within us
[Plato]
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317
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The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it
[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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322
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Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion
[Plato]
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324
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Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming
[Plato]
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325
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We must consider the four basic shapes as too small to see, only becoming visible in large numbers
[Plato]
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326
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For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things
[Plato]
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327
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There are two types of cause, the necessary and the divine
[Plato]
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328
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Everything that takes place naturally is pleasant
[Plato]
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330
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No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose
[Plato]
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331
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Bad governments prevent discussion, and discourage the study of virtue
[Plato]
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332
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One should exercise both the mind and the body, to avoid imbalance
[Plato]
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334
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Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence
[Plato]
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