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2018-07-13 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (hyp1: 137c-137d) - Still Making Divisions: It Doesn't Make Sense! (Now We're Reading)

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp1 Sections: 137c-137d (P1-P11) Attendees: Pierre, Regina, JulieH, CathyW, JeffS Synopsis Pierre continues to lead the Parmenides morning study group through the mysteries of this most enigmatic and most anagogically powerful of the dialogues of Plato. This morning, we start again from the beginning of the 1st hypothesis. We read slowly, carefully, appreciating (myself, for the first time now) how each step is really not making sense -- at least, not in the way we are accustomed to thinking, in our "modern", "Euro-centric" way. How much can we stand of the seeming irrationality, in the hopes that we will eventually fathom it, and it will come together into a marvelous implosion (unification) of intelligibility at the end? This question hangs over all of our heads, but we slog deeper into the mystery, with our fearless leader as guide.. Some hope: Already with Proclus' help, we are seeing that there is structure: 14 arguments -- if we can find them all, that is, and then decipher their pattern to unlock the code to how Parmenides reasons. Maybe with Pierre, Proclus, and Damascius holding the lanterns, we will get to the end, where lanterns will no

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