/lit/ - Literature

>>14150608
essences are emergent, but within a "pre-defined" phase-space

>>13962783
I'm not floating assumptions, I'm making arguments. Give me an example of an existing than it is not unified, or a unity that does not exist (even the concept of a unicorn has a kind of being). You can't.

>You may think the calendar irrelevant, but I guarantee you that many of these brilliant ancients would think quite differently if they had the benefit of our accumulated discoveries.

That's ironic because what you're trying to argue is actually a nuanced reading of Platonism, as demonstrated in this book.

Becoming is the phase-space of eternal forms that emerge within and as becoming. Plato was interested in trying to understand how it is that existence could conform to a structure that it can only disclose, or in other words how we can talk of something being disclosed if all there is, is the actual

>>13410948
Whitehead, without a doubt. You can read his Process and Reality as both an exposition of his personal system and as a takedown of the aforementioned mind-virus.

Schelling is an enormous influence. Particularly pic related. Grant ravages "anti-nature" philosophy, the "de-physicalized" Platonism of Aristotle and his intellectual descendants like Hegel. It's honestly what started making Klages and co. start to really click for me. Beware though, it's dense.

>>13375745
>Plato's Forms are really easy to understand

read this and get back to me