... principle" is the theory behind Plato's Forms which are presented and detailed in other dialogues (Phaedo, Republic, Meno, Parmenides, etc.). It simple means that a statue of Helen of Troy, for example, is considered beautiful because it participates in the Form of Beauty. And the Form of Beauty is an intangible, divine, perfect, immortal theory of the idea of beauty-much like a sort of heaven for Plato. There are many other forms (the Good, the ... True, etc.) and the forms ... ...

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