Parmenides
Parmenides
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This abstruse notion isthe foundation of the Hegelian logic. The mind must not only admitthat determination is negation, but must get through negation intoaffirmation. Whether this process is real, or in any way an assistanceto thought, or, like some other logical forms, a mere figure of speechtransferred from the sphere of mathematics, may be doubted. That Platoand the most subtle philosopher of the nineteenth century should havelighted upon the same notion, is a singular coincidence of ancien...t andmodern thought.
IV. The one and the many or others are reduced to their strictestarithmetical meaning. That one is three or three one, is a propositionwhich has, perhaps, given rise to more controversy in the world thanany other. But no one has ever meant to say that three and one are to betaken in the same sense. Whereas the one and many of the Parmenides haveprecisely the same meaning; there is no notion of one personality orsubstance having many attributes or qualities. The truth seems tobe rather the opposite of that which Socrates implies: There is nocontradiction in the concrete, but in the abstract; and the moreabstract the idea, the more palpable will be the contradiction.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This abstruse notion isthe foundation of the Hegelian logic. The mind must not only admitthat determination is negation, but must get through negation intoaffirmation. Whether this process is real, or in any way an assistanceto thought, or, like some other logical forms, a mere figure of speechtransferred from the sphere of mathematics, may be doubted. That Platoand the most subtle philosopher of the nineteenth century should havelighted upon the same notion, is a singular coincidence of ancien...t andmodern thought.
IV. The one and the many or others are reduced to their strictestarithmetical meaning. That one is three or three one, is a propositionwhich has, perhaps, given rise to more controversy in the world thanany other. But no one has ever meant to say that three and one are to betaken in the same sense. Whereas the one and many of the Parmenides haveprecisely the same meaning; there is no notion of one personality orsubstance having many attributes or qualities. The truth seems tobe rather the opposite of that which Socrates implies: There is nocontradiction in the concrete, but in the abstract; and the moreabstract the idea, the more palpable will be the contradiction.
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