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The relationship of Being and Idea has preoccupied philosophy ever since Plato. Although Plato did not explicitly distinguish the Idea from the Concept, he recognized that if ideas were just subjective universals lacking intrinsic objective reality philosophy’s search for wisdom was a hopeless endeavor. How then could ideas, exhibiting the universality of reason, have objective truth?
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Winfield, R.D. (2014). Being and Idea. In: Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137442383_5
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