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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'On Anger (Book 3)' and 'A Conversation: what is it? What is it for?'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

224	When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
	Full Idea: Doubtful questions should not be discussed in terms of visible objects or in relation to them, but only with reference to ideas conceived by the intellect.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 135e)

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites

232	Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]
	Full Idea: Opposites are as unlike as possible.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 159a)

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

8937	Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]
	Full Idea: Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic.
	From: comment on Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE]) by Georg W.F.Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit Pref 71
	A reaction: It is a long way from the analytic tradition of philosophy to be singling out a classic text for its 'artistic' achievement. Eventually we may even look back on, say, Kripke's 'Naming and Necessity' and see it in that light.

21842	Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: You should not try to find whether an idea is just or correct. You should look for a completely different idea, elsewhere, in another area, so that something passes between the two which is neither in one nor the other.
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
	A reaction: Neither relativism nor dialectic. Sounds like just having fun with ideas, but a commentator tells me it is a strategy for liberating our thought, following an agenda created by Nietzsche.

21850	Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: It is always possible to undo dualisms from the inside, by tracing the line of flight which passes between the two terms or the two sets …and which draws both into a non-parallel evolution. At least this does not belong to the dialectic.
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], II)
	A reaction: Deleuze disliked Hegel's version of the dialectic. Not clear what he means here, but he is evidently groping for an alternative account of the reasoning process, which is interesting. Deleuze hates rigid dualisms.