Chapter 14

Question 1

homiōsis

Answer 1

The criterion of philosophical speech (in opposition to doxa (opinion), “to make a likeness” or assimilate in words as faithfully as possible the vision provided by nous.

Question 2

To gar auto noein estin te kai eirai

Answer 2

“To be and to think are the same” - Parmenides. i.e., there is something in man that corresponds exactly to the divine because it enables him to live in divine territory - it is this (shared) divinity that causes Thinking and Being to be the same.

Question 3

ōn

Answer 3

Being. Parmenides.

Question 4

kalon

Answer 4

the sheer beauty of appearances, which tempts men into mere contemplation. Virtue (kalon k’agathon’ was thus not conceived as some innate quality but as a performance (virtuosity).

Question 5

athanatizein

Answer 5

immortalizing. present participle of the denominal verb formed from athánatos - immortal, undying.

Question 6

agenēton / anōlethron

Answer 6

agenēton - truly everlasting, not only without end but also without beginning. birthless, as opposed to the Greek gods who were merely athánatos (undying, immortal). what philosophers contemplate in Being.

anōlethron - unperishing.

Question 7

theōrein

Answer 7

Theory - significant because it takes it root / shares a root with the Greek word for God. To theorize is then to do as the Gods do -> immortality.