The Republic · ¶5057
Idea of good, the source of truth, 6. 508 (cp. 505); a cause like the sun, ib. 508; 7. 516, 517; must be apprehended by the lover of knowledge, 7. 534; —ideas and phenomena, 5. 476; 6. 507; —ideas and hypotheses, 6. 510; —absolute ideas, 5. 476 [cp. Phaedo 65, 74; Parm. 133]; origin of abstract ideas, 7. 523; nature of, 10. 596; singleness of, ib. 597 [cp. Tim. 28, 51].Read in context ›
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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