Author: Joshua
Dike can’t be translated directly to justice since it talks about order that is present in everything unlike the latter.
- Occupies a larger context than Justice
- Parmenides defies dike
- It would take an epic hero to cross the gate that dike is guarding
The Way of Opinion (Demigod/Daimon in story)
- The ones who were driving the chariot were demigod[desse]s
- Any spirit between between gods & mortals
- Can only take the man up to the gate
The Way Of Truth (Goddess/Thea in story)
- Goddess as truth herself
- Revealing herself to the persona and instructs him on the way of truth
- Epic hero has courage to ask questions and does not [get satisfied with] opinions
- The Way Of Truth is [the only path] worth pursuing
Being, That is, What is (alethes:true)
- Thinking is always connected to Being or What Is
- We are always thinking of something (ex. We can’t imagine something based from nothing)
Nothingness, That Is Not, What Is Not (sphallo:false)
- Pseudo-way (pseudo: not appearing as itself)
- Cannot be expressed nor recognized
- We should not [tread] this way.
According to Parmenides...
- Being does not change
- Being has to be motionless
- We are constantly in the “now” (always here & present)
- There is a wholeness
[Being as a] well-rounded sphere...
- Inviolable
- “can’t make a perfect circle”
- A symbol of divinity for the Greeks
Limit
- Something with a limit is perfect while the one that has no limit isn’t
- Ex. In sculpture, artist will put a limit to the stone for it to become a statue
- Perfection of a sphere is achieved because of its limit (limit is perfect & not distorted)
Our experience of nothingness is a negation of What Is. No sign-post is able to capture the fullness of reality.
[Friendly comment: This outline is too bare and therefore not very useful. Some important points made in class could be reversed if the one reading the outline is not very careful.]
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