Single Idea 210

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms]

Full Idea

Are there abstract ideas for such things as hair, mud and dirt, which are particularly vile and worthless? That would be quite absurd.

Gist of Idea

It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.366 BCE], 130d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.211

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