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Single Idea 9274
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Full Idea
Plato's legacy to European thought was a trio of capital letters - the Good, the Beautiful and the True.
Gist of Idea
Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
Source
report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by John Gray - Straw Dogs 2.8
Book Ref
Gray,John: 'Straw Dogs' [Granta 2002], p.57
A Reaction
It seems to have been Baumgarten who turned this into a slogan (Idea 8117). Gray says these ideals are lethal, but I identify with them very strongly, and am quite happy to see the good life as an attempt to find the right balance between them.
Related Idea
Idea 8117
Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]
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Only universals have essence
[Plato, by Politis]
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17085
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A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required)
[Plato, by Ruben]
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14502
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Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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9274
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
[Plato, by Gray]
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17947
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Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life
[Plato, by Nehamas]
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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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556
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If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common
[Aristotle on Plato]
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557
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A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause
[Aristotle on Plato]
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565
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things
[Aristotle on Plato]
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563
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If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars
[Aristotle on Plato]
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9607
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The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects
[Brown,JR on Plato]
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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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13261
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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13265
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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593
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Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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13260
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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11238
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Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is
[Plato, by Politis]
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1651
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Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions
[Vlastos on Plato]
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3324
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech
[Benardete,JA on Plato]
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Plato is boring
[Nietzsche on Plato]
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7503
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Plato never refers to examining the conscience
[Plato, by Foucault]
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2173
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As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul
[Williams,B on Plato]
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94
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Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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6015
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Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable
[Plato, by Kraut]
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1526
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Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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23890
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For Plato true wisdom is supernatural
[Plato, by Weil]
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3060
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Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books
[Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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23891
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Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them
[Plato, by Weil]
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