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Single Idea 8937

[filed under theme 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic ]

Full Idea

Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic.

Gist of Idea

Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic

Source

comment on Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE]) by Georg W.F.Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit Pref 71

Book Ref

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.44

A Reaction

It is a long way from the analytic tradition of philosophy to be singling out a classic text for its 'artistic' achievement. Eventually we may even look back on, say, Kripke's 'Naming and Necessity' and see it in that light.

The 36 ideas from 'Parmenides'

8937 Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]
13986 Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations [Plato, by Ryle]
14150 Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made [Russell on Plato]
21821 Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
16151 Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
15846 In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts [Plato, by Harte,V]
211 If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
210 It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
212 The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
213 Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
214 If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
215 If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
216 If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
217 Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
218 Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
219 If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
220 The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
221 Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
222 Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it [Plato]
223 If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
224 When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
13259 It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]
225 The unlimited has no shape and is endless [Plato]
2062 The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration [Plato]
16150 One is, so numbers exist, so endless numbers exist, and each one must partake of being [Plato]
15847 Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part [Plato]
227 You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
228 Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
229 The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
15849 Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not [Plato, by Harte,V]
15850 Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many [Plato]
231 Everything partakes of the One in some way [Plato]
15851 Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form [Plato]
232 Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]
233 Some things do not partake of the One [Plato]
234 We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it [Plato]