Platinus' Metaphysical Picture

Platinus is reluctant to concede genuine being or existence to the things in the material or natural world. He would disagree with Hamlet, who was frustrated that his two-two solid flesh refused to melt and resolve into a dew. For Platinus our bodies are only seemingly solid, since they are in continual flux,. making a constant retreat into non-being. At this level of reality, or apparent reality, Platinus is a Heraclitian. The consequences of all this are momentous, and not only for metaphysics.