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On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas
Abstract
These words, spoken by the youthful Socrates of Plato's Parmenides, express succinctly what has become known as Plato's doctrine of Ideas. Although differing statements of it, figurative and mythical elaborations on it, alterations in it, and attacks upon it appear in various of Plato's dialogues, those statements, elaborations, alterations and attacks have since ancient times ossified into one doctrine attributed to Plato. ence the doctrine asserted remains second to none. Influ- Our own age, perhaps embarrassed by the supernatural account it offers, hastens to supply refutation and alternative. asserts. This alone shows what force the doctrine stillThe doctrine of Ideas cannot with justice be considered any one thing. It is not simply an account of knowledge and truth. Nor is it simply an account. It includes-one could say is included in-a marvelous complex of thought. Though containing accounts of what knowledge and truth are, it includes as well a theory of human nature, doctrines of the soul's anatomy and life history, a theory of ethics, a grammar, even a philosophy of education.
Subject Area
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
WEDDLE, PERRY DAVID, "On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6800758.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6800758