Quotes to Remember Flashcards
Quote from Meno about Forms
“And so of the virtues, however many and different they may be, they have all a common nature whihc makes them virtues”
Quote about Forms in Parmenides
“There are certain ideas from which all things partake and from which they dervie their names; that similar things, for example, become similar because they partake in similarity; great things become great because they partake in greatness; and just and beautiful things become just and beautiful because they partake in justice and beauty”
Quote about Froms in Symposium
“He begets many beautiful and imposing discouses and thoughts in ungrudging loveof wisdom, until he beholds a certain kind of knowledge which is one and such that it is the following kind of beauty”
Quote about Forms in Phaedrus
“The sould has, by reason of her nature, had contemplation of True being”
Quote from Parmenides about an issue with the Theory of Forms
“Only a man of considerable natural gifts will be able to understand that there is a certain kind of each thin, a nature and reality alone by itself”
Quote about knowledge in the Parmenides about his issue with the theory of Forms
“Each branch of knowledge among us is knowledge of the things that are among us”
-there is a Form of knowledge which we cannot posses
