✚ Śunyata darśana: Diogenes enlightens Plato on the essential nature of emptinesspic.twitter.com/CvaOgwJjTw
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✚ Śunyata darśana: Diogenes enlightens Plato on the essential nature of emptinesspic.twitter.com/CvaOgwJjTw
Here's why I actually stand by Plato: the 'cupness' - is the purpose or function of the cup Śunyata refers to the tenet that all things are empty of permanent existence and nature. The physical cup is certainly not permanent, but the same cannot be said about its function.
In fact, the utility of the cup depends not on its physical form but on its empty hollowness. That is, emptiness is where its function lies.
This is a really interesting take! I don’t think I quite agree, but… probably twitter isn’t the best place to argue metaphysics :)
I would greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts on this.
Um, well, I’ll try. First a disclaimer: I’m not the slightest bit expert on Plato; I know him mostly only from second sources. And I mostly I read those a long time ago and may misremember them. But maybe what matters is not what Plato thought, but what is actually the case…
My dim recollection is that Plato’s Forms/Ideals were not meant to be understood as functions. That came in more with Aristotle? For Plato, a cup is a cup because it has cupness, not because it holds wine.
I'm not an expert on Plato either. But what exactly is 'cupness' without function? My reasoning is that when we see a cup, we recognize it a such because we recognize its function.
A cup that’s developed a hole in it is still a cup; just a defective one.
Your statement is actually consistent with my view. You said that the cup is defective. But why did you consider it to be defective? Because a cup with a hole in it cannot function properly. My original point was that form follows function.
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