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October 6, 2007
particularity and universality
It is well known that Plato was the first to require of philosophical study, in a really profound sense, that its object should be apprehended, not in their particularity, but in their universality, in their genus, in their own nature and its realization: inasmuch as he affirmed that the truth of things did not consist in individual good actions, true opinions, beautiful human beings or works of art, but in goodness, beauty, truth themselves.
Hegel - Lectures on Aesthetics
Posted by amin at October 6, 2007 12:38 PM