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2017-07-31 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - Invitation to Exercise in Parmenides' Dialectic

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Stephanus Sections: 135c-136b Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Nancy, Eldar, JulieH Topics Covered: Barbara brought in her printout of her search for semainei in the Parmenides, and its various meanings Reviewing the Logos at 136B (3). '..and in One Logos..' You have to relate the Self to all of the hypotheses. So when you finish, your dialectic should be a comparison of the idea of the Self in all of the hypotheses (which is what we've been doing). What would it take to do the exercise as Parmenides is suggesting? Exploration of the Parmenides' dialectic Why Providence (in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides) is not explored from the negative side. Greek tragedy. No concept of 'evil' as in Christianity. You have to master doing the exercise that Parmenides prescribes and Proclus does, in order to answer some of the questions we are asking. (With Providence) Pierre demonstrates how moving through what would follow from the negatives will help show how the positives must be true (References to Proclus are in his Commentary on Plato's Parmenides, Dillon and Morrow translation, book 5, page 352 and following pages. Paperback ISBN-1

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