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2017-12-03 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (hyp2) - The Self Name Once or Often

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp2 Sections: 147b-148a (P103-P116),126b Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Nancy, Eldar, Jed, JeffS Continuing working on the 2nd hypothesis in Plato's dialogue, Parmenides 0:00:30 Pierre suggests picking up with David's difficulty regarding same/different David describes his 'dyslexia' - couldn't even just "read the words". 0:06:20 146b Discussion proper begins with Pierre writing out a question on the diagram: What does Parmenides need in order to explain the existence of the many different souls or selves and its relation to the One or to the Self? First, he needs to show the same dynamics must apply to 'The Idea of the Good' (i.e., to Reality, or οντα ('onta', i.e. 'being' at the highest level), i.e., Brilliant Light of Being, Divine Luminosity, etc.). That's his task. And to do this he needs / we need same, other, different, likeness, unlikeness, similar.. 0:10:00 Where do Likeness and Unlikeness first appear? And everything that comes before that should justify the appearance of these terms at precisely the place they appear, and nowhere else. 0:11:30 147c P103 Barbara reads end of 147b (P103) to 148a (P116). Why do we have problems

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