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Single Idea 221

[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality ]

Full Idea

The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us.

Gist of Idea

Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.227