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Episode 198 Follow-Up: More on Plato’s “Parmenides” (Citizens Only)

September 13, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Mark and Seth continue our conversation from ep. 198 by going through the arguments in the second half of the dialogue.

This puzzling section is largely a monologue by the character Parmenides, with the stated aim of showing the implications from first, the assumption that the One exists, and then that the One does not exist. But is this really Parmenides’s One or the Platonic Form of Oneness? Can these be the same thing?

Episode 198: Plato’s Forms in the “Parmenides” (Part One)

September 3, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

On the most peculiar Platonic dialogue, from ca. 350 BCE.

Are properties real things in the world, or just in the mind? Plato is known for claiming that these “Forms” are real, though otherworldly. Here, though, using Parmenides as a character talking to a young Socrates, Plato seems to provide objections here to his own theory. What’s the deal?

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Episode 198: Plato’s Forms in the “Parmenides” (Citizen Edition)

September 2, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

On the most peculiar Platonic dialogue, from ca. 350 BCE.

Are properties real things in the world, or just in the mind? Plato is known for claiming that these “Forms” are real, though otherworldly. Here, though, using Parmenides as a character talking to a young Socrates, Plato seems to provide objections here to his own theory. What’s the deal?

End song: “Young and Lovely” by Jherek Bischoff. Hear him on Nakedly Examined Music #65.

Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two)

August 27, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing with guest Peter Adamson with “On Nature” (475 BCE).

We finally get to fragment 8, which describes why Being must be singular and eternal, given that the notion of Non-Being is nonsense. But how could we as individuals be asking these questions then? Does his “Way of Seeming” work to explain the appearances, as opposed to reality?

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End song: “Circle” by Gareth Mitchell, as discussed on Nakedly Examined Music #4.

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Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part One)

August 20, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

On the fragments referred to as “On Nature” from ca. 475 BCE, featuring guest Peter Adamson from the History of Philosophy without Any Gaps podcast.

Parmenides gives “the Way of Truth,” which is that there is only Being, and talking of Non-Being is nonsense. So everything you experience is wrong!

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Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and Non-Being

July 11, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

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On the later Platonic dialogue. What is a sophist? These were guys in Ancient Greece who taught young people the tools of philosophy and rhetoric. They claimed to teach virtue. In Sophist, “the Eleatic Stranger” (i.e., not Socrates) tries to figure out what a sophist really is, using a new “method of division.” This Plato era provides a nice transition to the category man Aristotle, and the whole concern with sophistry is certainly still relevant today!

End song: “Dumb,” by Mark Lint and the Fake from the album So Whaddaya Think? (2000).

Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and Non-Being (Citizen Edition)

July 9, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Plato

On the later Platonic dialogue. What is a sophist? These were guys in Ancient Greece who taught young people the tools of philosophy and rhetoric. They claimed to teach virtue. In Sophist, “the Eleatic Stranger” (i.e. not Socrates) tries to figure out what a sophist really is, using a new “method of division.” This leads to a long digression on the nature of “not-being” as a necessary component of false beliefs, which is what the Stranger claims that sophists provide.

End song: “Dumb,” by Mark Lint and the Fake from the album So Whaddaya Think? (2000).

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