Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R.E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities. Allen's original translation of and commentary on the Parmenides were published in 1983 to great acclaim and have now been revised by the author.
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This in-depth study should dispel the misguided belief that Plato's "Parmenides" is an exercise in spinning aporiae, or intellectual puzzles. Scolincov's penetrating analysis and exegesis excavates the battle of wits going on between these seminal figures in western philosophy, and illuminates their competing conceptions of what it means for things to exist. The metaphysical and epistemological issues at stake raise important methodological considerations, and in this dialog we can clearly see the profound influence of Parmenides and Zeno on Socrates' dialectical method. I am grateful for Scolnicov's magisterial guide work through this extremely difficult dialog - it has deepened my understanding and appreciation for Plato and Parmenides considerably.
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The Parmenides is narrated by Cephalus of Clazomenae, who has heard it from Plato's half-brother, Antiphon, who heard it in turn from Pythodorus, a student of Zeno (Alcibiades I 119a, cf. DK I 248,33), who was present at the original conversation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dilemma of Participation, Idea of Unity, First Deduction, Paradox of Divisibility, Likeness Regress, Second Deduction, Eleatic Stranger, One Being, Idea of Largeness, New York, Form of Unity, Idea of Being, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Classical Quarterly, Idea of Likeness, American Journal of Philology, Aristotle's Physics, Communion of Kinds, Constance Meinwald, Cook Wilson, Idea of Equality, Idea of Plurality, Mathematical Philosophy, Zeno's Fragment New!
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The Parmenides is narrated by Cephalus of Clazomenae, who has heard it from Plato's half-brother, Antiphon, who heard it in turn from Pythodorus, a student of Zeno (Alcibiades I 119a, cf. DK I 248,33), who was present at the original conversation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dilemma of Participation, Idea of Unity, First Deduction, Paradox of Divisibility, Likeness Regress, Second Deduction, Eleatic Stranger, One Being, Idea of Largeness, New York, Form of Unity, Idea of Being, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Classical Quarterly, Idea of Likeness, American Journal of Philology, Aristotle's Physics, Communion of Kinds, Constance Meinwald, Cook Wilson, Idea of Equality, Idea of Plurality, Mathematical Philosophy, Zeno's Fragment New!
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- Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay by Francis Herbert Bradley on page 221
- Logic, Science, and Dialectic: Collected Papers in Greek Philosophy by G. E. L. (Gwilyn Ellis Lane) Owen in Front Matter
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