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'Parmenides', 'The Republic' and 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction''
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being [Plato]
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being [Plato]
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Plato, by Fogelin]
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