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Single Idea 154

[from 'Phaedrus' by Plato, in 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms ]

Full Idea

What overpowering love knowledge would inspire if it could bring a clear image of itself before our sight, and the same may be said of the other forms.

Gist of Idea

We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms

Source

Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 250d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.57


A Reaction

the motivation in Plato's theory