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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Philosophy of Mind' and 'The Republic'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

19659

The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

9862	To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being [Plato]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

21818

Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being [Plato]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

19662

It is necessarily contingent that there is one thing rather than another - so something must exist [Meillassoux]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19654

We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux]