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Full Idea
Philosophers must rise up out of becoming and grasp being, if they are ever to become rational.
Gist of Idea
To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 525b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.1142
A Reaction
I am never quite sure what 'being' means in such contexts, and it seems suffused with mysticism. In Plato's case, it is obviously related to what is unchanging, but why would something lack 'being', just because it underwent change?
| 229 | The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato] |
| 9862 | To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being [Plato] |
| 20364 | The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato] |
| 324 | Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato] |
| 5645 | The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton] |
| 22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
| 7079 | Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship [Nietzsche, by Critchley] |
| 20360 | We Germans value becoming and development more highly than mere being of what 'is' [Nietzsche] |
| 20359 | The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche] |
| 21846 | Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
| 21899 | There is no being beyond becoming [Deleuze] |