(November 25, 2013 at 6:32 pm)I and I Wrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides
So this guy Parmenides used to do philosophy but has since stopped and now just works with his horses.... This is similar to heideggers "being" btw. Anyway, Parmenides asks the essential ontological question as to when is something different or the same? Deleuze dealt with this issue although in a kanthan way in his work In Difference and Repetition.
Example: when is a democracy different than a dictatorship? We have different ways of defining the two ideas but what historical examples sets them apart from each other?
Parmenides deals with... What is the "one" and what is the "multiple". The "one" according to Alain Badiou is being itself, the count of one and the multiple is pure ontology.
Your thoughts....
Oh dear, I would have thought that someone who chose that avatar would have heard of "The People's Democratic Dictatorship"
