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“The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust things in the world around you, you have to somehow ascend to or maybe remember some kind of idea of equality and justice and this would be a Platonic form, and it would be different from the things that partake in the form.”

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Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson was a celebrated television actor known for his diverse and accomplished performances. Born on February 16, 1930, Adamson's career spanned several decades, leaving a profound mark on audiences. He passed away on January 17, 2002. more

“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.”

Mean Form Left Causes Example Equal Stones Sticks Dialogue Inequality Plato Sticks And Stones

Author:Peter Adamson

“There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.”

Mind Form Realms Platonic

Author:Peter Adamson

“Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would see the forms and behold them, as if they were standing before it. And Plotinus said that that can't be right because it falls prey to sceptical objections.”

Ifs Way Looks Said Might Form Fall Painting Standing Intellect Prey Objections

Author:Peter Adamson

“Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation or image of the forms, but it won't actually have the forms, it won't touch them as it were, or it won't incorporate them.”

Ifs Kind Problem Form Intellect Representation

Author:Peter Adamson