Full Idea
When I believe that I have found in anyone the ability to discuss unity and plurality as they exist in the nature of things, I follow his footsteps as if he was a god.
Clarification
This is the relationship between Forms and particulars
Gist of Idea
The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things
Source
Plato (Phaedrus [c.368 BCE], 266b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.82
A Reaction
This sounds like the problem of identity, which is at the heart of modern metaphysics.