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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Also Huayen Buddhism seems to have been a vector for Greek Cosmology into early Chinese Buddhism
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That’s interesting! I don’t know much about Huayen. Makes sense based on the little I do know.
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Some strands of Zen were heavily influenced by Huayen, as I imagine you know, and those in particular have been picked up by hippie monists.
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