As I begin to understand Platonic Cosmology, the book that keeps haunting my memories is Deleuze and Guattari's "What is Philosophy?"
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Deleuze is trying to rescue the World Spirit Demiurge, The Dyad, from Plato's Monolithic One
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Plato himself was trying to rescue *anything* from the One of Parmenides. That’s what the Forms are for: they mediate between the One & many
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Or for any sane person! All is *obviously* not one; change *obviously* occurs. Plato’s obfuscatory compromise has been the root of all evil.
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I am a Parmenides beginner, but isn't there some controversy about Parmenides? Whether he really believed there wad no change?
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Yeah, for all the pre-Socratics, we can’t be sure what they actually said or believed, because the texts are lost/fragmentary.
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But, it appears that Plato doesn’t make much sense unless he was reacting to that view, or else was licking toads.
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Dillon's intro in Middle Platonism doubts that the Dialogues represent Plato's philosophy. Could they be chatroom printouts?
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All history should be considered propaganda fiction unless/until proven otherwise.
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