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2017-09-19 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - hyp3 - Would One Alone Come to Light

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp2 Sections: 143a Barbara's note to us in email: Hi, all Today, we were discussing 143A5 about, in Juan's translation, "What if we grasp Self according to Self by the Understanding alone without this ousia of which we say it participates, would one alone, indeed come to light or is this self also many." I commented that monon was not feminine and so couldn't modify dianoia which is feminine. Rather it modified self and so added to the idea of "self alone by itself" While that is true, I looked up the reference because I recalled there was an adverbial use of monon. It can mean only adverbially. Then that part of the translation would read "grasp only by dianoia" or "grasp by the dianoia only/alone", as Juan has it. My own preference would be to read it in parallel structure because of both placement and form, as I did above, i.e. "self alone by self " Just to play fair, so to speak, Barbara (Diagram forthcoming. Current temporary photo courtesy of catherine ¨MOSINIAK-PAILLIER, here . Yes, Autumn is lovely.) Working from Plato's Parmenides: The Juan and Maria Balboa Translation More info: http://noeticsociety.org/psg

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