A brief survey of Presocratic and Platonic metaphysics.

Stepping in the Same River Twice: The Metaphysics of Plato and the Presocratics He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth - Goethe The SS Sardine is a fine, sea-going vessel. Its owner however, is quite bent on wanting an entirely new boat. Instead of investing the money into buying a whole boat, she figures that she will simply transform the Sardine into a new boat herself. For a period …

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