Plato’s Parmenides ReconsideredPlato's Parmenides Reconsidered offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account of Plato's Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose the absurd nature of the doctrines and method of his philosophical opponents. |
Contents
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Parmenides Part I | 29 |
Parmenides Part II | 59 |
Parmenides in Theaetetus and Sophist | 126 |
Notes | 167 |
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