Friday, May 1, 2020

Footnote Gh19

Gh19. We may safely say that a great many of the major philosophers have sought the nexus point between what the Greeks saw as an opposition of The One versus The Many. The cosmic dichotmomy has also been characterized as Being versus Becoming and Monism versus Pluralism (including Dualism). This hunt, as pursued by Plato, Leibniz, Hegel, Russell, and a legion of others, has never been successful, at least not to the point of consensus. Even Descartes sought the nexus point -- in the pineal gland!
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