85 ideas
| 23890 | For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil] |
| 24261 | Devotion to learning and applied intelligence leads to divine wisdom - if truth is available [Plato] |
| 3060 | Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 326 | For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things [Plato] |
| 315 | Philosophy is the supreme gift of the gods to mortals [Plato] |
| 306 | Nothing can come to be without a cause [Plato] |
| 23891 | Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them [Plato, by Weil] |
| 24250 | We should not pick out 'this' water, but only 'something of this sort' [Plato] |
| 24246 | The sun was made for light, so we could learn numbers from astronomical movement [Plato] |
| 324 | Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato] |
| 20364 | The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato] |
| 14502 | Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed [Plato, by Koslicki] |
| 307 | Something will always be well-made if the maker keeps in mind the eternal underlying pattern [Plato] |
| 318 | In addition to the underlying unchanging model and a changing copy of it, there must also be a foundation of all change [Plato] |
| 17948 | Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Plato, by Nehamas] |
| 321 | For knowledge and true opinion to be different there must be Forms; otherwise we are just stuck with sensations [Plato] |
| 3039 | When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Plato, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 20906 | Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 12042 | Plato's Forms were seen as part of physics, rather than of metaphysics [Plato, by Annas] |
| 556 | If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle on Plato] |
| 317 | The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it [Plato] |
| 563 | If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle on Plato] |
| 565 | The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle on Plato] |
| 557 | A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle on Plato] |
| 9607 | The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato] |
| 13263 | We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki] |
| 13265 | Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Plato, by Koslicki] |
| 13261 | Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki] |
| 593 | Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 13260 | Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Plato, by Koslicki] |
| 11237 | Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis] |
| 11238 | Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis] |
| 24254 | Two existing entities can never strictly coincide [Plato] |
| 24236 | Some statements about what is obvious and stable are as irrefutable as possible [Plato] |
| 24252 | Knowledge is taught, has logos, is unshakeable, and is rare [Plato] |
| 24251 | If knowledge is just true belief, we are forced to rely on the senses [Plato] |
| 334 | Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence [Plato] |
| 17085 | A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required) [Plato, by Ruben] |
| 5962 | Plato says the soul is ordered by number [Plato, by Plutarch] |
| 24244 | The soul is a complex mixture of pure mind and changing matter [Plato] |
| 24258 | The gods placed the mortal soul in the chest [Plato] |
| 330 | No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose [Plato] |
| 1651 | Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato] |
| 24240 | Intelligence requires soul [Plato] |
| 23803 | States have content if we can predict them well by assuming intentionality [Dennett, by Schulte] |
| 3324 | Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA on Plato] |
| 24241 | Beauty must always be perfect [Plato] |
| 316 | Music has harmony like the soul, and serves to reorder disharmony within us [Plato] |
| 7503 | Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Plato, by Foucault] |
| 24260 | The best part of the soul raises us up to the heavens, to which we are naturally akin [Plato] |
| 2173 | As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B on Plato] |
| 24259 | Death in old age is a natural end, untroubled, and more pleasure than distress [Plato] |
| 24239 | Perfect goodness always produces perfect beauty [Plato] |
| 9274 | Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True [Plato, by Gray] |
| 94 | Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 332 | One should exercise both the mind and the body, to avoid imbalance [Plato] |
| 17947 | Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life [Plato, by Nehamas] |
| 24257 | Unnatural modifications are painful, and restoring normality is pleasant [Plato] |
| 328 | Everything that takes place naturally is pleasant [Plato] |
| 6015 | Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable [Plato, by Kraut] |
| 2912 | Plato is boring [Nietzsche on Plato] |
| 24234 | I have discussed the best constitution, and the kind of citizens it requires [Plato] |
| 24235 | Female Guardians will have identical duties to the men [Plato] |
| 24248 | The god said human nature comes as the superior male, and inferior female [Plato] |
| 322 | Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion [Plato] |
| 331 | Bad governments prevent discussion, and discourage the study of virtue [Plato] |
| 310 | The creator of the cosmos had no envy, and so wanted things to be as like himself as possible [Plato] |
| 311 | The cosmos must be unique, because it resembles the creator, who is unique [Plato] |
| 24249 | The elements seem able to transmute into each other [Plato] |
| 24243 | The world-maker used the four elements and their properties in entirety [Plato] |
| 325 | We must consider the four basic shapes as too small to see, only becoming visible in large numbers [Plato] |
| 327 | There are two types of cause, the necessary and the divine [Plato] |
| 24255 | Motion needs differing moved and mover, so it originates in diversity [Plato] |
| 24256 | The spherical universe composed of four elements squeezes out every bit of void [Plato] |
| 24253 | Space is eternal and indestructible, but is only known by barely credible reasoning [Plato] |
| 24245 | The god created eternity in the sequence of the universe, and its image we call 'time' [Plato] |
| 314 | Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens [Plato] |
| 1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
| 309 | Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change [Plato] |
| 308 | If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato] |
| 24238 | The god found chaos, and led it to superior order [Plato] |
| 24242 | Is there a plurality (or even an infinity) of universes? No, because the model makes it unique [Plato] |
| 24247 | The universe has four types of living being: gods, birds, fish, and land animals [Plato] |
| 24237 | The divine organiser of the world wanted it to have as little imperfection as possible [Plato] |