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2018-06-18 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (hyp1: 135e,136a-c) - 'The Exercise': What is It?

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp1 Sections: 135e,136a-c Attendees: Pierre, Eldar, Barbara, Regina, JulieH Synopsis Working to understand Parmenides' description of the 'exercise' that Socrates should engage himself in. We have also in the past discussions referred to this as a 'dialectic', with 8 parts. Proclus also expands on it (to 24) in his Commentary. Highlights 0:00:30 to 0:19:00 Regina's pseudo-question re 135e, P56 19:00 Barbara - translation issues at P56 "can": Optitive, so perhaps better as "could". Therefore opens up the question, Will it always be successful, even if someone practices it? 26:50 back to Regina's question 0:28:00 P58 136a Start of Parmenides discussion where Pierre had wanted originally Pierre has everyone do a sketch/chart of what is being said. 0:37:00 Eldar's diagram they were talking about, and passing around. (Can I have a copy?) Trying to read through P58 without necessarily trying to understand it - only represent what is literally being said. (We'll work on understanding it later.) to (3), 136c And how does the idea of "Others" fit in the hypotheses later, i.e., formally in the structure of the dialectic? Diagram 2 - today's content is lower

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