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'After Finitude', 'Philosophy of Mind' and 'The Republic'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux]
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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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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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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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It is necessarily contingent that there is one thing rather than another - so something must exist [Meillassoux]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux]
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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 / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A higher level is 'supervenient' if it is determined by lower levels, but has its own natural laws [Heil]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Plato, by Fogelin]
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