"Parmenides" - читать интересную книгу автора (Plato)

notion is a very just one.

I understand, said Socrates, and quite accept your account. But tell

me, Zeno, do you not further think that there is an idea of likeness

in itself, and another idea of unlikeness, which is the opposite of

likeness, and that in these two, you and I and all other things to

which we apply the term many, participate-things which participate

in likeness become in that degree and manner like; and so far as

they participate in unlikeness become in that degree unlike, or both

like and unlike in the degree in which they participate in both? And

may not all things partake of both opposites, and be both like and

unlike, by reason of this participation?-Where is the wonder? Now if a

person could prove the absolute like to become unlike, or the absolute

unlike to become like, that, in my opinion, would indeed be a

wonder; but there is nothing extraordinary, Zeno, in showing that

the things which only partake of likeness and unlikeness experience

both. Nor, again, if a person were to show that all is one by

partaking of one, and at the same time many by partaking of many,

would that be very astonishing. But if he were to show me that the

absolute one was many, or the absolute many one, I should be truly

amazed. And so of all the rest: I should be surprised to hear that the

natures or ideas themselves had these opposite qualities; but not if a

person wanted to prove of me that I was many and also one. When he

wanted to show that I was many he would say that I have a right and

a left side, and a front and a back, and an upper and a lower half,

for I cannot deny that I partake of multitude; when, on the other