
HoP 081 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Monad and Diad - Principles of Everything
i don't think people will find it very easy to think about the monad and the diad as principles of everything, whatever that even means. Monet is perfectly one an unitarian principle, it doesn't need anything er. It's also difficult to imagine that it would be capable of doing anything else,. unless you also accept a counter principle, the diet. The first entities produced by the monet and the diet would be thought of as number naturally. There are platonic systems for people indeed identify these numbers with forms. And there is some support for that in the reports on the unwritten doctrines. I am thinking of plutarch.
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