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2015-10-20 NSPRM Parmenides plg - Ideas, Their Function in Dim Reflection

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Sections: 130b 130c 130d 130e Attendees: Pierre, David, Barbara, Regina, Brian, Bradley, JulieP, JeffS picking up from where we left off at the recent seminar.. if our assumption is that the idea of the Self is playing an interesting role in this work, let's see what Parmenides does after Socrates unearths it 130b each one of the ideas appears to possess a self 2 classes of ideas: those that are participatory, and those that are not is Parmenides making a distinction between what Zeno is doing and what Socrates is doing with those ideas? perhaps the ideas (Socrates later learns) are not separable whatever way you read it, you have to go back and ask what a Greek would do with that on what phrase does this ambiguity arise? is the translation confusing? or is Parmenides confused? the things we possess: 'qualities' instead of 'particulars'? or merely concepts? 130c Parmenides to Socrates: the problems with Socrates models and what things you are going to put in the class of ideas. (from DC): ..and how we become what we are by virtue of those ideas -- and how do those ideas exist so that we could become such? how do we become what we are? (some how

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