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2018-01-10 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (hyp2) - What is Doxa?

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp2 Sections: 155d (P237), 154e (P231), 155c (P233), 154d-155d (P228-P234) Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, Regina, Nancy, JulieH, Eldar, Jed, JeffS Continuing (from Monday ) with doxa (δόξα) at P237/155d: Trying to find it in the 2nd hypothesis. Why/how can he use it here? What did he do in the 2nd hyp that qualifies? Besides "opinion", Doxa could also be "belief", "appearance", "reputation", "expectation", or others. Could doxa be referring to whatever is denied in the hyp2? So that the positives are 'knowledge', and their concomitant negatives/denials are 'doxa'? We go looking for negatives at 154e/P231 and 155c/P233 (both older/younger and neither older/younger) Plato is not using doxa here in the Parmenides the way he is using it in The Republic. (Doxa here has a relationship to knowledge whereas it does not in The Republic) Brief detour into a comparison with the Gospel of John in the New Testament, and how he uses 'doxa': why isn't the transfiguration included in John? Is doxa being used here in the way it is used in John? John elevates belief and doxa to the highest position thus Christians can ignore the higher cognitive functions and don't ha

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