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2018-01-01 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (hyp2) - Communion

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp2 Sections: 151e-152a (P183-P187) Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Nancy, JulieH, Eldar, Jed, JeffS Our study group continues where we left off a week ago, at 151e in the 2nd hypothesis of Plato's Parmenides dialogue. Pierre suggests we go back over the section we last read (151e-152a, P183-187), so we do. We discuss the "procession" word in P187, which has as its root the word, 'poros', as Barbara noted for us previously in our most recent previous NSPRM meeting, 12/27 . Briefly, 'Wisdom'/'Neverataloss' as the 'grandfather' of Love (Aphrodite) is explored. [I had put translations of that line from the Symposium into the notes for that meeting , but I did not mention here in today's talk. -JS] We spend time trying to unpack the Greek for 185b, regarding participation and communion and which of those apply to whatever Ousia is doing regarding past, present and future time. After bouncing it around a bit, one of the possibilities Barbara offers for us is that Ousia participates in all three forms of time -- past, present and future -- and that this represents a communion . Pierre and we all like this for the unity it seems to provide, an

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