universal mind and universal reason?

Question

I dont understand what universal mind and universal reason means?!! I don't understand Plato's understanding of universal mind and reason. Somebody please help me!!!!

Answer 1

My understanding of the word 'universal' is anything that is same for a number of things. The universal concept does not include for its description the notion of how it is, only that it is. Something may be universal due to unconscious nature or the conscious nature of man or something. Perhaps Plato was asking for the sameness between mind and reason of human beings; There may be sameness and difference at the same time for the same people, e,g, we may all be of a religion but not all of that religion are the same (Protestant, Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian etc.) or the choosen universal may be more general, e.g. the religious or atheist, or less general or i.e. more specific, male Presbyterian.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

Universal History
Universal Judgment
Universal not apprehended by senses
Universal Notion
Universal Particular & Individual
Universality of self-consciousness
Universality


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_ii.htm#SL21n

Universals apprehended in Reflection
§ 21n

To reflect is a lesson which even the child has to learn. One of his first lessons is to join adjectives with substantives. This obliges him to attend and distinguish: he has to remember a rule and apply it to the particular case. This rule is nothing but a universal: and the child must see that the particular adapts itself to this universal. In life, again, we have ends to attain. And with regard to these we ponder which is the best way to secure them. The end here represents the universal or governing principle and we have means and instruments whose action we regulate in conformity to the end. In the same way reflection is active in questions of conduct. To reflect here means to recollect the right, the duty — the universal which serves as a fixed rule to guide our behaviour in the given case. Our particular act must imply and recognise the universal law. We find the same thing exhibited in our study of natural phenomena. For instance, we observe thunder and lightning. The phenomenon is a familiar one, and we often perceive it. But man is not content with a bare acquaintance, or with the fact as it appears to the senses; he would like to get behind the surface, to know what it is, and to comprehend it. This leads him to reflect: he seeks to find out the cause as something distinct from the mere phenomenon: he tries to know the inside in its distinction from the outside. Hence the phenomenon becomes double, it splits into inside and outside, into force and its manifestation, into cause and effect. Once more we find the inside or the force identified with the universal and permanent: not this or that flash of lightning, this or that plant — but that which continues the same in them all. The sensible appearance is individual and evanescent: the permanent in it is discovered by reflection.

Nature shows us a countless number of individual forms and phenomena. Into this variety we feel a need of introducing unity: we compare, consequently, and try to find the universal of each single case.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slsubjec.htm#SL163

A. THE SUBJECTIVE NOTION
Development of the Subjective Notion
Notion - Judgment - Syllogism

(a) The Notion as Notion
§ 163

The Notion as Notion contains the three following ‘moments’ or functional parts.

(1) The first is Universality — meaning that it is in free equality with itself in its specific character.

(2) The second is Particularity — that is, the specific character, in which the universal continues serenely equal to itself.

(3) The third is Individuality-meaning the reflection-into-self of the specific characters of universality and particularity; which negative self-unity has complete and original determinateness, without any loss to its self-identity or universality.

Answer 2

universal reason....everyone has the same way of seeing things . These people would be possibly brainwashed and can't think for themselves.......Universal reason....The same thing man

Answer 3

To answer that question, we first have to have a full version of Gospel, which has been edited and altered multiple number of times.

Answer 4

believe it or not, you are operating with the same system as everyone else.