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2017-09-14 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - plg hyp1 - No Shoes

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg;hyp1 Sections: 135d,135e,142a Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, JulieH, Eldar, Alex, JeffS [This was a great session, and my notes were scratchy again. I want to come back and re-do them. Anyone wants to contribute some, I'll take 'em! Also, 2nd day in a row meeting at Panera. Lots of background noise and music. So today I put a Shure headset on Pierre (left ear) and a Shure MX omni-directional table mic out for the rest of us (right ear). -JS] q1: pierre: in the 3rd, why does he need to start with the Self? q2 barbara: they're not really hypotheses q3: reviewing briefly to answer this, returning to the prologue 135d - that is because you exercise yourself too early 135e Going to the end of the hyp1: 142a Q4: Would this first sentence of 142a be a puzzle? q5: What do you make of the fact that this work has a dramatic structure we would never expect? That is, Parmenides does not have an audience. They came to hear Zeno, not Parmenides. What of all this? And they don't stop horse guy and mkae tyrant? no body gains anything from this except the person who does it independently. (except socrates?) Contrasting the similar structures of Parmenides and Symp

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