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Single Idea 214

[from 'Parmenides' by Plato, in 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication ]

Full Idea

If you regard the absolute great and the many great things in the same way, will not another appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?

Gist of Idea

If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 132a)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.217