"Plato's Good was TAKEN from the rhetoricians. Phaedrus searched, but could find no previous cosmologists who had talked about the Good. That was from the Sophists. The difference was that Plato's Good was a fixed and eternal and unmoving Idea, whereas fro the rhetoricians it was not an Idea at all. The Good was not a FORM of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way." (ZAMM 379)
Ron: True, the good is an idea, the idea all ideas spring from. It was thought that perception was the good in the way of limit. To experience or to "be" was to exercise limit, preference, thus consciousness is measure. No The Good was not A form of reality, to be certain, it was THE form of reality. And in this way it was considered eternal and unmovable, without limit. No distinctions. Ron adds: I think it is very important to understand why and how the conclusion was arrived at that The Good was unmovable because change requires making distinctions. Makes one want to reformulate the aspect of DQ as being free of distinction yet posited as ever-changing. Thoughts? ... Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
