Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Cleanthes, Plato and Benjamin Constant
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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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Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato]
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The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
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What does 'that which is not' refer to? [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
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If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence [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 / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato]
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