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2015-11-13 NSPRM - Proclus - Commentary on Plato's Parmenides - The Riddle of the Cause of Self

Dialogue(s): commentary-on-parmenides Chapters: book6 Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Bradley Summary of today's topics: Finishing up on yesterday's conversation about the deficits in Morrow and Dillon's translation of Proclus' Invocation/Prayer Pierre's experiences with the philosophical limitations at St Johns College The absurdities of European and American (university) philosophy, which is basically Aristotelian, not Platonic (with which it is at war, since it ignores Wisdom/ the Mind / 2nd hypothesis of Parmenides / Brilliant Light of Being) The gap between the 1st and Second hypotheses (in Plato's Parmenides) which Proclus ignores incorrectly in building a cosmology, but which Damascius does not ignore, and.. The Riddle of the Self. If the 1st hyp does NOT cause the 2nd hyp, then what did/does? History of the University as a "professing" extension of the Church European and American continued exclusion of latest carriers of the Platonic tradition Detailed: mostly using Morrow & Dillon's translation of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides. ISBN 0691020892 [ AbeBooks ] (But also, early on, using what must have been a translation of the Invocation by our own Juan

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