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Single Idea 616
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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Full Idea
Nor is it a sufficient explanation of the world to say just that all things were originally together. For things differ in matter. Indeed, why otherwise did an infinity of things come-to-be, and not just one?
Gist of Idea
It doesn't explain the world to say it was originally all one. How did it acquire diversity?
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1069b25)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.358
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[nature is really a single perfect object]:
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1640
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The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one
[Xenophanes, by Plato]
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424
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Reason tells us that all things are one
[Heraclitus]
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5081
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There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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1509
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The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing
[Parmenides, by Simplicius]
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20900
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Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being
[Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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226
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The one is without any kind of motion
[Parmenides]
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555
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People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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1505
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Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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453
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Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another
[Parmenides]
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21823
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless
[Empedocles, by Plotinus]
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2062
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The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration
[Plato]
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231
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Everything partakes of the One in some way
[Plato]
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233
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Some things do not partake of the One
[Plato]
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616
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It doesn't explain the world to say it was originally all one. How did it acquire diversity?
[Aristotle]
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21814
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How can multiple existence arise from the unified One?
[Plotinus]
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21815
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Because the One is immobile, it must create by radiation, light the sun producing light
[Plotinus]
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21816
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Soul is the logos of Nous, just as Nous is the logos of the One
[Plotinus]
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6406
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Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity
[Bradley]
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17692
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We can't deduce the phenomena from the One
[Armstrong]
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12246
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What makes Parmenidean reality a One rather than a Many?
[Oderberg]
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