English

2015-10-15 NSPRM Parmenides plg - Is the Idea of the Self Participable?

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Sections: 129a 129b 129c 129d 129e 130a 130b Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Bradley What does Parmenides find so admirable? Is it possible that if they are ideas in the Platonic sense, that everything participates in them? The use of auto Do you put the idea of 'Self' in the class of ideas? (If so, then there is a class of ideas which are not participable.) If the Self could be in a class of participable ideas, then there would be something other than the Self of which it would participate. Is there an opposite to Self? If it is an idea, and all these ideas are pairs, then where is the complement to Self? All of the pairs are participable. Is the Self participable? DC: he just changed the name, from "the One" to "the Self". what we are saying is that we are admitting the possibility that the One functions in spite of the fact that it functions. In the 2nd hypothesis, there's a Self that functions very much like a One. Are not the hypotheses different ways in which the One-Many function? Does the Self function like the One? Do we mean by "the ideas" nothing other than "the Self"? Especially if I have an interest in "knowing myself",

Sign in with your free account to read, download EPUBs or listen.