Saturday, July 6, 2019

Indefinite Dyad and Dionysian

If, as some scholars believe, Plato's concept of the Unlimited is what Aristotle signifies by the Indefinite Dyad, and if, as some conceive it, the Indefinite Dyad is a dynamic principle, then so, too, is the Unlimited dynamic.  On that basis, the Unlimited connotes not a static indeterminate manifold, but a process of overcoming limitations.  One way of eliminating a limitation is by dissolving it, and one limitation is one's concept of one's own Self.  Hence, one instance of the Indefinite Dyad is Dissolution of Self. Now, one prominent example of the process of Dissolution of Self is that effected by Nietzsche's Dionysian principle, though he never seems to recognize it as such.  Similarly, his Apollonian principle corresponds to a dynamic version of Plato's concept of the Limited.

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