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Parmenides
Plato
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This is the track along which Plato is leading us. Zeno had attempted to prove the existence of the one by disproving the existence of the many, and Parmenides seems to aim at proving the existence of the subject by showing the contradictions which follow from the assertion of any predicates. Take the simplest of all notions, 'unity'; you cannot even assert being or time of this without involving a contradiction. But is the contradiction also the final conclusion? Probably no more than of Zeno's denial of the many, or of Parmenides' assault upon the Ideas; no more than of the earlier dialogues 'of search.' To us there seems to be no residuum of this lon. . . Read More
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I read this dialogue and was exhausted by its repetitive and confusing arguments. Only now that I've had time to step away from it and discuss it with others has the true beauty of The Parmenides' message struck me. This book allowed me to see everything as unified in a way I could never conceive of
Extremely important dialogue. In some ways I think Plato is best understood as a response to Parmenides and Heraclitus. However, even having read Parmenides' fragments and listening to some lectures on this dialogue, I still must confess that the second half was much too obscure for me to comprehend
After a long hiatus, I picked up Plato's dialogues again in 2005. No review or notes written at the time and I don't recall my thoughts. The only thing I did was quote the following on the Book Talk Forum at BookCrossing:
Parmenides: Then the one which is not, if it is to maintain itself, must have t
ألا تعتقد بأن هناك مثالًا للمشابهة قائمًا بذاته وآخر مقابلًا له هو ماهية المشابهة؟ وأن هذه الازدواجية في المثل نشارك فيها أنا وأنت وجميع الأشياء الأخرى التي نطلق عليها كثرة؟ أو أن الأشياء بقدر ما تشارك وعلى نحو ما تشارك تكون متشابهة إذا شاركت في التشابه، وتكون غير متشابهة إذا شاركت في اللاتشابه،
Ex nihilo, nihil fit.
I am interested to discover that the doctrine of the One is still alive. It is now going by the name of blobjectivism, and is being met with the usual uninformed derision. Only fifteen minutes ago, Matt cruelly dismissed it in the following terms:I opened the link and closed it right away. I mostly
What the hell did I just read? I will give someone money if they can understand this:
"Then the one which is not, if it is to maintain itself, must have
the being of not-being as the bond of not-being, just as being must
have as a bond the not-being of not-being in order to perfect its
own being; for th