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2019-08-14 NSPRM - Proclus - Theology of Plato (Book 5, Chapter 38); Plato - Parmenides (Hyp 1)

Synopsis Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another session of study. Lately we've been taking a break from the Parmenides, going through Proclus' Theology of Plato (*) instead, in order to see how Proclus lays out the 14 orders of gods implied in the Parmenides. Today we read Book 5, Chapter 38, and Hyp 1 of Parmenides. Gina started the talk with trying to answer how difference was generated, how does it come about in Plato's Parmenides Hypothesis 3. We returned to this topic at the end of the talk after finishing Chapter 38. Pierre also took us into Hypothesis 1 in Juan Balboa's translation and suggested that the ideas of “in itself” and “in another” as described in the First Hypothesis fit the description in Chapter 38. We read from Parmenides number 17 through 27 and Pierre said that it ran throughout about half of that hypothesis. Pierre gave a couple of assignments for next time, basically to try to understand why “different”. If ousia and one are philosophical substantives, why would different, a “relationship” word as Gina called it, be numbered with them, be in the same class? If Ousia and One share something, does different as well? So the assi

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