Parmenides: (Plato Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511939751)

Many interpreters have regarded the Parmenides as a 'reductio ad absurdum' of the Eleatic philosophy. But would Plato have been likely to place this in the mouth of the great Parmenides himself, who appeared to him, in Homeric language, to be 'venerable and awful, ' and to have a 'glorious depth of mind'? (Theaet.). It may be admitted that he has ascribed to an Eleatic stranger in the Sophist opinions which went beyond the doctrines of the Eleatics. But the Eleatic stranger expressly criticises the doctrines in which he had been brought up; he admits that he is going to 'lay hands on his father Parmenides.' Nothing of this kind is said of Zeno and Parmenides. How then, without a word of explanation, could Plato assign to them the refutation of their own tenets

Author: Plato
ISBN-10: 1511939753
ISBN-13: 9781511939751
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2015
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d