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Full Idea
What overpowering love knowledge would inspire if it could bring a clear image of itself before our sight, and the same may be said of the other forms.
Gist of Idea
We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms
Source
Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 250d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.57
A Reaction
the motivation in Plato's theory