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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Afaict, Nagarjuna got this same bollocks over the Silk Route, and Buddhism has been infested with it ever since.
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Nagarjuna and his historical setting are almost unknown to me. He's on the to do pile with similarly influenced 4th c. Vaishnavism
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His date is extremely uncertain. It’s certain that he didn’t write most of what was attributed to him (it’s from much later).
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He reiterates a bunch of Zeno’s arguments for the impossibility of change practically verbatim; and plausibly got Sextus Empiricus too.
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Nagarjuna is also closely associated with vampires, and volume 3 of my my supposed vampire novel series is supposedly about that
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