Plato Versus Parmenides

Author : Robert J. Roecklein
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739150795

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Plato versus Parmenides by Robert J. Roecklein Pdf

The issue of coming into being in Greek philosophy is investigated mostly by specialists in language analysis and philological science. Plato versus Parmenides, Robert J. Roecklein brings to the fore Plato's refutation of Parmenides' argument in his famous dialogue by that name. Roecklein offers an unprecedented exposition of the dialogue the Parmenides, and seeks to illuminate a political dimension in Parmenides' early formulations of the challenges made to the reality of coming into being in nature.

Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520925113

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Plato's Parmenides by Samuel Scolnicov Pdf

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 dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.

Author : Plato,Paramenides Eleatus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0672602970

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Plato and Parmenides by Plato,Paramenides Eleatus Pdf

Author : Francis MacDonald Cornford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317830399

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Plato and Parmenides by Francis MacDonald Cornford Pdf

This is Volume III of ten in a series on Ancient Philosophy. First published in 1939, it looks at Parmenides' 'Way of Truth' and Plato's 'Parmendies' translated with an Introduction and a running commentary.

Author : Vishwa Adluri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441139108

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Parmenides, Plato and Mortal Philosophy by Vishwa Adluri Pdf

In a new interpretation of Parmenides' philosophical poem On Nature, Vishwa Adluri considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals. Adluri argues that the tripartite division of Parmenides' poem allows the thinker to brilliantly hold together the paradox of speaking about being in time and articulates a tragic knowing: mortals may aspire to the transcendence of metaphysics, but are inescapably returned to their mortal condition. Hence, Parmenides' poem articulates a "tragic return", i.e., a turn away from metaphysics to the community of mortals. In this interpretation, Parmenides' philosophy resonates with post-metaphysical and contemporary thought. The themes of human finitude, mortality, love, and singularity echo in thinkers such as Arendt, and Schürmann as well. Plato, Parmenides and Mortal Philosophy also includes a complete new translation of 'On Nature' and a substantial overview and bibliography of contemporary scholarship on Parmenides.

Author : John A. Palmer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191584657

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Plato's Reception of Parmenides by John A. Palmer Pdf

John Palmer presents a new and original account of Plato's uses and understanding of his most important Presocratic predecessor, Parmenides. Adopting an innovative approach to the appraisal of intellectual influence, Palmer first explores the Eleatic underpinnings of central elements in Plato's middle-period epistemology and metaphysics. He then shows how in the later dialogues Plato confronts various sophistic appropriations of Parmenides while simultaneously developing his own deepened understanding. Along the way Palmer gives fresh readings of Parmenides' poem in the light of the Platonic reception, and discusses Plato's view of Parmenides' relation to such key figures as Xenophanes, Zeno, and Gorgias. By tracing connections among the uses of Parmenides over the course of several dialogues, Palmer both demonstrates his fundamental importance to the development of Plato's thought and furthers understanding of central problems in Plato's own philosophy.

Author : Mitchell H. Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400885893

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Plato's PARMENIDES by Mitchell H. Miller Pdf

Miller's study demonstrates the value of integrating hermeneutic reading and conceptual analysis. His interpretation works out in detail the purpose and argument of the Parmenides as a whole and provides a new point of departure for discussion of its place in the Platonic corpus. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert G. Turnbull,Plato
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802042368

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The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy by Robert G. Turnbull,Plato Pdf

Turnbull offers a close and detailed reading of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to illuminate Plato's major late dialogues. The picture presented of Plato's later philosophy is plausible, highly interesting, and original.

Author : Plato,Parmenides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106014889775

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Plato and Parmenides by Plato,Parmenides Pdf

Author : Eric Sanday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Form (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0810130076

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A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides by Eric Sanday Pdf

In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato's "theory of forms" is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief obstacle to understanding the theory of forms is the distorting effect of the tacit metaphysical privileging of individual things in our everyday understanding. For Plato, this privileging of things that we can own, produce, exchange, and through which we gain mastery of our surroundings is a significant obstacle to philosophical education. The dialogue's chief philosophical work, then, is to destabilize this false privileging and, in Parmenides, to provide the initial framework for a newly oriented account of participation. Once we do this, Sanday argues, we more easily can grasp and see the truth of the theory of forms.

Author : Samuel C. Rickless
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139462785

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Plato's Forms in Transition by Samuel C. Rickless Pdf

There is a mystery at the heart of Plato's Parmenides. In the first part, Parmenides criticizes what is widely regarded as Plato's mature theory of Forms, and in the second, he promises to explain how the Forms can be saved from these criticisms. Ever since the dialogue was written, scholars have struggled to determine how the two parts of the work fit together. Did Plato mean us to abandon, keep or modify the theory of Forms, on the strength of Parmenides' criticisms? Samuel Rickless offers something that has never been done before: a careful reconstruction of every argument in the dialogue. He concludes that Plato's main aim was to argue that the theory of Forms should be modified by allowing that forms can have contrary properties. To grasp this is to solve the mystery of the Parmenides and understand its crucial role in Plato's philosophical development.

Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547305774

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Parmenides by Plato Pdf

Parmenides is one of Plato's dialogues. 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. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides' supposition that there is one gives rise to intolerable absurdities and contradictions.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781585104994

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Parmenides by Plato Pdf

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300138030

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The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 4 by Plato Pdf

Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R. E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities. Allen has revised his original translation of and commentary on the Parmenides, which were published in 1983 to great acclaim.

Author : Scott Austin
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972537

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Parmenides and The History of Dialectic by Scott Austin Pdf

Parmenides and the History of Dialectic is a study of Greek philosophical method as it affects contemporary philosophical issues. What was distinctive about the method of Parmenides, the inventor of philosophical argument as we know it? How did Parmenides' method affect Plato's dialectic, which was supposed to provide the solution to all ultimate philosophical problems? How, in turn, did Plato influence Hegel and our subsequent tradition?There are many studies of Parmenides' text, its philosophical content, and its influence. This study aims to do something different, to look at the form of the argument, the scope of its positive and negative language, the balanced structure its author generates, and the clear parallels with Plato's Parmenides.