Ideas from 'works' by Plato [375 BCE], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Complete Works' by Plato (ed/tr Cooper,John M.) [Hackett 1997,0-87220-349-2]].

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

23890

For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Weil]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

3060	Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Diog. Laertius]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

23891

Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them [Weil]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 3. Structural Relations

14502

Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed [Koslicki]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

3039	When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Diog. Laertius]

20906

Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Aristotle]

17948

Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

556	If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication

563	If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques

557	A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle]

565	The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

9607	The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

13263

We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

13265

Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Koslicki]

13261

Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

593	Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Aristotle]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

13260

Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Koslicki]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

11237

Only universals have essence [Politis]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

11238

Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Politis]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

17085

A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required) [Ruben]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

1651	Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

3324	Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

7503	Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Foucault]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

2173	As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

9274	Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True [Gray]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure

94	Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good [Aristotle]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

17947

Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life [Nehamas]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

6015	Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable [Kraut]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom

2912	Plato is boring [Nietzsche]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time

1526	Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Aristotle]