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Here some views will be developed that will serve to locate the problem(s) of participation and indicate the directions in which Plato sought solutions. The matter is important for understanding Plato and, therefore, for understanding philosophy. I think it is pertinent to see that the treatment of participation offered in the Parmenides is directly in line with the development of Plato’s primary doctrines.1
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Professor Robert S. Brumbaugh’s book is Plato on the One (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960). I must add that my modest understanding of these matters owes a very great debt to Professor Charles Bigger, to his conversation and to his excellent book, Participation: A Platonic Inquiry, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1968), see especially pp. 135–45.
I take this occasion to note that the view of perception, originating with this Platonic analogy and which I develop in Man and Technology and Principles of Interpretation, needs amplification and clarification in the directions indicated by Bernard Dauen-hauer in “Mere Things,” in Philosophy and Archaic Experience, ed. John Sallis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1982), pp. 199–209.
Parm. 157d. See also my Socratic Ignorance: An Inquiry into Platonic Self-Knowledge (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965), pp. 57–66.
Op. cit. pp. 129–48. See also my Principles of Interpretation (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1983), Chapter IX.
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Ballard, E.G. (1989). On Participation: Beginning a Philosophical Grammar. In: Philosophy and the Liberal Arts. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2368-3_4
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