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Parmenides

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 102 pages

Parmenides is a philosophical dialogue by Plato, featuring a conversation between Parmenides, Zeno, and a young Socrates. It critically examines the theory of Forms and presents a series of dialectical exercises on the One and the Many. It is worth listening to for its rigorous logic and its influence on metaphysics.

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Opening of the book

PARMENIDES

By Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

Contents

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.

The awe with which Plato regarded the character of 'the great'

Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name.

None of the writings of Plato have been more copiously illustrated, both in ancient and modern times, and in none of them have the interpreters been more at variance with one another. Nor is this surprising. For the Parmenides is more fragmentary and isolated than

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Contents

  1. PARMENIDES
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
  5. PARMENIDES
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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