“Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.” MeanFormLeftCausesExampleEqualStonesSticksDialogueInequalityPlatoSticks And Stones Author:Peter Adamson
“The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks linguistically, it thinks in a temporarily extended way, so it for example, might go through the steps of an argument chain, as if you were going through a syllogism and seeing that something followed from the premises, whereas intellect simply grasps the forms.” IfsThinkingWayDoeSoulMightFormStepsSeeingExampleArgumentIntellectChainsPremises Author:Peter Adamson
“When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.” ShouldPleasureExampleDrinkSeekingContemplatingFood And Drink Author:Peter Adamson
“If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.” IfsThinkingKindSeemsExampleUnityRepresentationProportionality Author:Peter Adamson
“If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or a group of people trying to accomplish something, it fails when its unity breaks down. So when it stops having a single form, which is functioning all together, then it sort of falls apart into discrete elements.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingTogetherFormFallCommonBreakFailingGroupsCarExampleElementsUnityAccomplishClockBreaking DownFalling ApartDiscrete Author:Peter Adamson
“Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for example, Plotinus is immensely influential, and Neo-Platonism becomes at least one major component of mainstream Islamic philosophy as well.” IfsWorldWellsLittlesStillsPhilosophyHappensSchoolBitsCenturyExampleMajorsLittle BitConcernPhilosophicalIslamicMainstreamStoicismComponentsInfluentialScepticismEpicureanism Author:Peter Adamson
