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2018-07-04 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (hyp1: 138a-c) - The Ordering of the Orders of the Gods

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp1 Sections: 138a-c (P17-P23) Attendees: Pierre, JulieH, Barbara, Regina, Eldar, JeffS Synopsis We are still working through Pierre's 14 arguments outlined in his diagram from our 6/27 session . We finish the 'not in itself and not in another' argument and move on, starting into the 'not stationary and not moving' argument. Pierre points out that we can have the questions a) whether all (14) arguments are necessary (and not superfluous), and b) whether the ordering (sequence) of these arguments is correct/appropriate. If we can see why the sequencing is correct/necessary, it will give us additional insights into how Parmenides thinks. Pierre adds (by telling a St Johns story, around 1:24:25) that somewhere Thomas Taylor refers to the arguments as an ordering of (the classes of) the gods. Barbara later finds reference to this in Taylor's conclusion to Chapter 11 of The Theology of Plato, which (if you go looking for it), starts like this: In addition, likewise, to what has been said, this also may be asserted, that we cannot, on any other hypothesis, obtain a rational solution of the many doubts which present themselves on this subject, but shall

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