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2015-11-16 NSPRM - Proclus - Commentary on Plato's Parmenides - Truth Is Beyond All Things Called Truth

Works(s): Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Parmenides; Philip Wheelwright, The Presocratics (the poem of Parmenides) Chapters: Proclus: Book01 (the Invocation); Wheelwright: First Parmenides poem fragment (I think) Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Bradley, JulieH, AdinaB Topics Covered, Audio Highlights, and Notes Today we focus again on Proclus' Invocation, at the beginning of his Book 1 in his Commentary on Plato's Parmenides . Text/translation used is Morrow and Dillon, Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0691020891, ISBN-10: 0691020892; Hard cover 0691073058 (A copy of just the "Invocation" from the above text, page 19, may found at our NSPRM recording for 11/11/2015 .) Who else could generate impromptu an "Invocation" so clearly superior to Proclus' own, except Pierre? I was not there on this day, but I am guessing that the fragment of the Parmenides poem they read was from Philip Wheelwright's book, The Presocratics , ISBN-10: 002426640X; ISBN-13: 978-0024266408. This is the same Wheelwright Pierre mentioned yesterday and today whom he invited to come to Golden West College, and also to a Friday night (NSFRI) one time. From Barbara (BES) via email to me, afterwords: "Today was for

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