platonic idea

is not in either space nor time and while a platonic idea may be individuated from other platonic ideas, the qualities of individuation that would follow from the introduction of spatial and temporal qualifications are lacking in it.

The Platonic Ideas are in neither space nor time, and they therefore lack the qualities of individuation that would follow from the introduction of spatial and temporal qualifications. In these respects, the Platonic Ideas are independent of the specific fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, even though it would be misleading to say that there is no individuation whatsoever at this universal level, for there are many different Platonic Ideas that are individuated from one another.

is the direct objectification of will and its immediate objectivity.

Schopenhauer refers to the Platonic Ideas as the direct objectifications of Will, and as the immediate objectivity of Will.

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platonic idea