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2018-06-04 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (133c-d) - Prelude to the Master Argument (part 2)

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Sections: 133c,133d Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, JulieH, Regina, Eldar, JeffS Synopsis Today we stayed with P36 (Parmenides' 36th time to speak in the prologue) in Plato's Parmenides , and went over it to better understand what Parmenides is saying. The main work we did today was to focus on one (complicated, difficult) sentence before the "master argument" is started, and try to figure out what issues that sentence foreshadows. Topics Touched On Regina's question about how to translate the first couple of lines of P36 Pierre asks us if we can count the number of arguments The reason is that if we nail down the position and the questions, we'll be later able to go back and check (when getting into the "master argument" which is coming up beginning with P37) whether these issues are addressed. A distinction is made between understanding completely, or seeing the entire meaning, versus just a 'surface' understanding of what is being said (for now), without understanding its deeper meaning. Today we actually go for the latter: We just want to see what Parmenides is laying out as the problem (and additional questions we may have that it brings up, w

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