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2015-10-21 NSPRM Parmenides plg - You Will No Longer Despise Any Particular Selves

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Sections: 130b 130c 130d 130e 131a Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, JulieP, Bradley 130B 130C barbara's question: what are the implications 130B can we get also from this passage a better understanding of Parmenides' understanding of Zeno's position? 130C what is the right way to speak about classes of things? how to talk about elements? are there separate ideas for these things? so what do you want to conclude in the category of an idea? and are there also ideas about ideas? and other ideas that come to birth as a result of that? and applying it to other things? can you use the idea of ideas when you apply it to a certain class of physical objects? if there are ideas, do what do they connect with in the empirical world? are there separate ideas for these things? greek 'idea' (ειδοσ) ≠ modern/european 'idea' which is more like 'concept' eidos is often translated as a 'perceived form', or that which is seen Socrates when you are older and philosophy has taken ahold of you, you will not despise any of these particulars (selves?) 130E regina's question about αυτον 131A is the whole of each idea in each of the many? if the idea of sharing

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