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Of all Plato’s dialogues, the __Parmenides__ is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the __Parmenides__ and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the __Parmenides__ Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the __Parmenides__ emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogue

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Author

Scolnicov, Samuel

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520925113

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Humanities