Dialogue

 1 Parme|       whether you would assume an idea of likeness in the abstract,
 2 Parme|       there is nothing without an idea; but I repress any such
 3 Parme|      pervaded by a common form or idea of greatness, which you
 4 Parme|           embrace in one view the idea of greatness thus gained
 5 Parme|           it comprises, a further idea of greatness arises, which
 6 Parme|        the same in all and is the idea? And if the world partakes
 7 Parme|          comprehended in the same idea; and the likeness of the
 8 Parme|           and the likeness of the idea and the individuals implies
 9 Parme|       individuals implies another idea of likeness, and another
10 Parme|           us has a slave; and the idea of a slave in the abstract
11 Parme|       abstract is relative to the idea of a master in the abstract;
12 Parme|        follow him. From the crude idea of Being in the abstract,
13 Parme|           an ethical universal or idea, but is there also a universal
14 Parme|      Parmenides, who compares the idea of greatness to a sail.
15 Parme|         having obtained a general idea, does not really go on to
16 Parme|           they also converted the idea of Being into an abstraction
17 Parme|          there still remained the idea of ‘being’ or ‘good,’ which
18 Parme|         by the ‘one’ he means the Idea; and that he is seeking
19 Parme|       indirectly the unity of the Idea in the multiplicity of phenomena.~
20 Parme|         neither name nor word nor idea nor science nor perception
21 Parme|          anything, and except the idea of smallness there will
22 Parme|  conception of ‘suddenness.’ This idea of ‘suddenness’ is based
23 Parme|         one and other: or (3) The idea, which has been already
24 Parme|           unlike in them: (6) The idea of being or not-being is
25 Parme|         and the more abstract the idea, the more palpable will
26 Parme|       persuaded that any abstract idea is identical with its opposite,
27 Parme|          devoid of meaning, or an idea which is an idea of nothing?’
28 Parme|            or an idea which is an idea of nothing?’ In modern times
29 Parme|           importance to a word or idea. The philosophy of the ancients
30 Parme|        meaning, as if the general idea of ‘force’ in our minds
31 Parme|    further think that there is an idea of likeness in itself, and
32 Parme|   likeness in itself, and another idea of unlikeness, which is
33 Parme|        you think that there is an idea of likeness apart from the
34 Parme|     should.~And would you make an idea of man apart from us and
35 Parme|         that each of these has an idea distinct from the actual
36 Parme|         absurdity in assuming any idea of them, although I sometimes
37 Parme|       there is nothing without an idea; but then again, when I
38 Parme|        either of the whole of the idea or else of a part of the
39 Parme|          or else of a part of the idea? Can there be any other
40 Parme|          you think that the whole idea is one, and yet, being one,
41 Parme|         from itself.~Nay, but the idea may be like the day which
42 Parme|          itself; in this way each idea may be one and the same
43 Parme|       them only and not the whole idea existing in each of them?~
44 Parme|            Socrates, that the one idea is really divisible and
45 Parme|         you are led to assume one idea of each kind is as follows:—
46 Parme|        you to be one and the same idea (or nature) in them all;
47 Parme|           embrace in one view the idea of greatness and of great
48 Parme|          things which are not the idea, and to compare them, will
49 Parme|       would seem so.~Then another idea of greatness now comes into
50 Parme|         all be great, and so each idea instead of being one will
51 Parme| Parmenides? For in that case each idea may still be one, and not
52 Parme|        and the same in all, be an idea?~From that, again, there
53 Parme|        the individual is like the idea, must not the idea also
54 Parme|       like the idea, must not the idea also be like the individual,
55 Parme|           is a resemblance of the idea? That which is like, cannot
56 Parme|           not partake of the same idea?~They must.~And will not
57 Parme|          makes them alike, be the idea itself?~Certainly.~Then
58 Parme|       itself?~Certainly.~Then the idea cannot be like the individual,
59 Parme|           the individual like the idea; for if they are alike,
60 Parme|           are alike, some further idea of likeness will always
61 Parme|         be always arising, if the idea resembles that which partakes
62 Parme|       make of each thing a single idea, parting it off from other
63 Parme|     another. But there is also an idea of mastership in the abstract,
64 Parme|          which is relative to the idea of slavery in the abstract.
65 Parme|         severally by the absolute idea of knowledge?~Yes.~And we
66 Parme|           And we have not got the idea of knowledge?~No.~Then none
67 Parme|           has its own determinate idea which is always one and
68 Parme|          to abstract from them in idea the very smallest fraction,