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2016-09-20 NSPRM Parmenides plg - Parmenides' dialectic, sec 4, with help from Proclus

Stephanus sections: 136c Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, Regina, Eldar, JeffS If you were to do the dialectic of Zeno, how would you set it up, to do section (4) of Parmenides' dialectic? Alt: What are the difficulties you encounter in setting it up in order to proceed with the dialectic? We read from Proclus's commentary ( Morrow/Dillon translation ), pages 365, 366, 358, 359, 354, 19, 20. 1 We look over how Proclus runs the dialectic over Providence, Likeness, and Soul. For Proclus, why don't his negative assertions just negate the positive ones? Working from Plato's Parmenides: The Juan and Maria Balboa Translation More info: http://noeticsociety.org/psg 1 These snippets are included in the PDF which accompanies this recording, but the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license does not apply to these photocopies of these quotes, since the material is not the NS's. I only include it here for the convenience of our followers, as it is only a few pages out of a large and expensive volume. I suggest you purchase it -- it is an awesome read!

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