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Single Idea 211

[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms ]

Full Idea

It is troubling that if admirable things have abstract ideas, then perhaps everything else must have ideas as well.

Gist of Idea

If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 130d)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.213