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2017-08-04 NSPRM - Proclus - Commentary on the Parmenides - Using Mnemonic Images and Metaphors When Exercising in the Parmenidean Dialectic, with Providence and Likeness as Examples

Dialogue(s): parmenides;commentary-on-the-parmenides Chapters: plg;book05 Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Eldar, Nancy, JulieH, JeffS Discussion of Barbara's print-out on vocabulary in the dialectic . (That is a direct link but it is stored and listed separately in our Plato: text-searches item.) Dialogue proper starts around 0:09:58, with Pierre's 1st question: "I'd like to have a popular word or image for the 2nd category of Providence in the Parmenides (working from the Morrow/Dillon translation of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides). Where do these terms come from which are explored via Parmenides / Proclus, and which seem to relate to each other in multiple ways? Where do they come from? We call this the Logos. And in the dialectic, the Logos uses a certain class of terms, through all of the different categories one may have. Isn't it interesting, the need for metaphors? They are not logical categories. You may have to figure out what's behind that. 'You'd better inhibit the flow of things, in order to make sure certain things don't develop.' Oh! Something about, I heard about Likeness! Post-discussion / chit-chat begins around 1:32:26. Working from Plato's P

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