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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question is about Numenius' fragment =
16 (ed.Des
Places= fr.25 ed.Leemans).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Numenius writes: "(o g\ar de/uteros =
ditt\os )\wn
a)utopoîei t/hn te )id/ean (eautoû ka\i t\on =
k/osmon..."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think that we must understand: "The =
Second (...)
produces himself the idea of the self and the world"; indeed, the Second =
cannot
produce his own idea because the First is already the idea of the Second =
(fr.20,
l.5-6). The First thinks ideas but does not think himself, the =
particularity of
the Second is the reflexiveness.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you know other texts where the =
expression "idea
eautou", understood as "idea of the self", appears?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(I've looked quickly at Plot. V, 3 and =
Proclus
Commentary on Alcibiades but I've found nothing).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Frederic Fauquier</FONT></DIV>
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