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Parmenides (Greek: Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates.
Aug 17, 2007 · 1. Overview of the Dialogue. Plato’s Parmenides consists in a critical examination of the theory of forms, a set of metaphysical and epistemological doctrines articulated and defended by the character Socrates in the dialogues of Plato’s middle period (principally Phaedo , Republic II–X, Symposium ).
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Feb 8, 2008 · Parmenides. First published Fri Feb 8, 2008; substantive revision Mon Oct 19, 2020. Parmenides of Elea, active in the earlier part of the 5th c. BCE, authored a difficult metaphysical poem that has earned him a reputation as early Greek philosophy’s most profound and challenging thinker.
Parmenides ( Greek: Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato 's dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates.
Jan 6, 2023 · Persons in the dialogue: Cephalus, Adeimantus, Glaucon, Antiphon, Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristotle CEPHALUS SPEAKING 126A When we arrived in Athens from Clazomenae, our hometown, we came across Adeimantus and Glaucon[1] in the agora. Adeimantus took me by the hand and said, “Greetings, Cephalus, if there is anything you want here, anything we can do for you, just ask ...
Persons of the Dialogue. CEPHALUS. ADEIMANTUS. GLAUCON. ANTIPHON. PYTHODORUS. SOCRATES. ZENO. PARMENIDES. ARISTOTELES. Scene. Cephalus rehearses a dialogue which is supposed to have been narrated in his presence by Antiphon, the half-brother of Adeimantus and Glaucon, to certain Clazomenians.
