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poet and poem, sculptor and sculpture, love and beloved become one and the same: PygmalionandGalatea.6
Plato’s fragments are a firmament: a phosphorescent firmament. Whether the Thing or Unthing is infinite or finite, one and/or many, it is enough to inspire and stir us to dream and to dwell poetically on earth not as if we all were young Shakespeares, Blakes, Goethes, Beethovens, Holderlins, Cervantes, Gongoras and Quevedos but as children of infinitudes: a sum. Indeed, it is enough to dwell on Plato’s Theory of Forms to enter a firmament of divergent magnitudes, opinions, or attempts at knowledge: his a-priori idealism of Unity where form and matter are one (the unity of the multiple) and Aristotle’s a-posteriori realism of Multivocity where form and matter are divided. Ivory within Galatea versus ivory and Galatea. To measure universals against particulars is to enter into the spellbound Aristotelian argument of form as actuality and matter as potentiality, is to ask ourselves that cosmic question whether matter is non-being and form being or vice- versa and, ultimately, is to ask who are we and what is in that, what is the thinging of the thing so that we may discover whose concept is closest to Truth and the Good 3⁄4 Plato’s or Aristotle’s.
Of the indefatigable Aristotelian corpus bequeathed to the west, it is in the compact Book I, Chapter 6 of the
6 Written jointly, on purpose, to reflect oneness.
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