Dialogue

 1  Meno|      collecting or arranging his ideas. He has practice, but not
 2  Meno|         to the virtue based upon ideas.~Also here, as in the Ion
 3  Meno|         Because men had abstract ideas in a previous state, they
 4  Meno|        and of the association of ideas. Knowledge is prior to any
 5  Meno|          of the pre-existence of ideas of justice, temperance,
 6  Meno| phenomenon of the association of ideas (compare Phaedo) became
 7  Meno|          of Socrates.~...~ON THE IDEAS OF PLATO.~Plato’s doctrine
 8  Meno|       PLATO.~Plato’s doctrine of ideas has attained an imaginary
 9  Meno|     popular view of the Platonic ideas may be summed up in some
10  Meno|       remarked that the Platonic ideas are to be found only in
11  Meno|         in the same passage. The ideas are sometimes described
12  Meno|        in which he treats of the ideas and those in which he is
13  Meno|         sciences, which are also ideas, and under either aspect
14  Meno|          account of the Platonic ideas in the Meno is the simplest
15  Meno|          back a latent memory of ideas, which were known to them
16  Meno|  evidently possesses such innate ideas before she has had time
17  Meno|          popular doctrine of the ideas. Yet there is one little
18  Meno|          the Meno, the origin of ideas is sought for in a previous
19  Meno|           It is also argued that ideas, or rather ideals, must
20  Meno|       the Phaedo the doctrine of ideas is subordinate to the proof
21  Meno|        all things.’ And, ‘If the ideas exist, then the soul exists;
22  Meno|   convinced.~In the Republic the ideas are spoken of in two ways,
23  Meno|         as the genera or general ideas under which individuals
24  Meno|  exposition of Plato’s theory of ideas, but with a view of showing
25  Meno|         nature of knowledge. The ideas are now finally seen to
26  Meno|          many, causes as well as ideas, and to have a unity which
27  Meno|        occurs of the doctrine of ideas. Geometrical forms and arithmetical
28  Meno|     though the conception of the ideas as genera or species is
29  Meno|       defence of the doctrine of ideas, but an assault upon them,
30  Meno|          admitted that there are ideas of all things, but the manner
31  Meno|         become like them, or how ideas can be either within or
32  Meno|        if there are no universal ideas, what becomes of philosophy? (
33  Meno|        the Sophist the theory of ideas is spoken of as a doctrine
34  Meno|           called ‘the Friends of Ideas,’ probably the Megarians,
35  Meno|           and the correlation of ideas, not of ‘all with all,’
36  Meno|       respecting the doctrine of ideas. If we attempted to harmonize
37  Meno| experience, is really ideal; and ideas are not only derived from
38  Meno|    speculation culminates in the ideas of Plato, or rather in the
39  Meno|   philosophy to psychology, from ideas to numbers. But what we
40  Meno|        from this alone all other ideas could be deduced. There
41  Meno|         he proceeds from general ideas, that many elements of mathematics
42  Meno|       say of abstract or general ideas, that the greater the abstraction
43  Meno|      when we seek to apply their ideas to life and practice. There
44  Meno|          as there is between the ideas of Plato and the world of
45  Meno|          crude conception of the ideas of Plato survives in the ‘
46  Meno|     analysis and construction of ideas has no foundation in fact;
47  Meno|          and narrow than Plato’s ideas, of ‘thing in itself,’ to
48  Meno|         the origin and nature of ideas belongs to the infancy of
49  Meno|         sometimes imagine. Fixed ideas have taken the most complete
50  Meno|  relation to actual facts as the ideas of Plato. Few students of
51  Meno|          in any true sense whose ideas are in such confusion?~MENO: