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2018-07-09 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (139b-139d) - Different, Different, Different: To Be One Precludes Difference

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp1 Sections: 139b-139d (P42-P50) Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, JulieH, JulieP, Eldar, CathyW, JeffS Synopsis Pierre leads the Parmenides Morning Study Group through another morning. We are still working through the 1st hypothesis of Plato's dialogue, Parmenides , looking at the 14 arguments made there (see Pierre's diagram from 6/27 ) and noting what patterns of thinking Parmenides is using. Today we work through P42-P50 (hypothesis 1) of the Balboa translation. Before we get started, Pierre makes reference to a review (by Phillip W. Schoenberg) of Douglas Hedley's new book, The Iconic Imagination . The review is in the journal, Philosophy in Review XXXVII (February 2017), no. 1. (Googling, I found copies of the review here (PDF) and here .) The Hedley book itself is: The Iconic Imagination . Bloomsbury 2016. 320 pp. $120 USD (Hardcover ISBN 9781441172174); $34.95 (Paperback ISBN 9781441194633) Pierre brings us the 3 page review and we pass it around. Highlights Do the 14 arguments hide the 'gods' that Socrates was sentenced for? Thus the Parmenides is hiding these (not listing them explicitly) because of the political climate at the

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