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2015-11-19 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - hyp3 - Ousia in the 3rd Hypothesis: A Joke Will Take You Into the Gap

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp3 Sections: 156b,155e (P1, P8) Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Adina, Bradley, JeffS Topics Covered, Audio highlights, and Notes Not a lot of text work today. Mostly chit-chat. The session starts out with Pierre sitting at David's kitchen table looking over a book Barbara brought which was mentioned in previous sessions, on the basis of having apparently influenced a Zen person on Facebook who was in conversation with Pierre: Parmenides and the Way of Truth Richard Geldard ISBN-10: 0976684349 ISBN-13: 978-0976684343 0:10:00 Geldard: Why has philosophy lost its way? [We can answer this way: Because academic philosophy denies the One/Self (hyp1). It even denies Mind / Divine Luminosity / Brilliant Light of Being and all its aspects (ie hyp2), calling them instead "ideas" and forms -- precisely and ironically the mistake the young Socrates makes in the prologue. And therefore, Ousia ( Mind looking at Mind ) is out, too. Once the elephant in the room has been ignored, academic philosophy can now go about setting up its own zoo. But it is a lifeless zoo. A zoo of phantasms and despairs all caged and categorized, and charging admission. -JS

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