Plato’s Parmenides Reconsidered [electronic resource] /
Tabak, M.author.
Plato'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.
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Plato's Parmenides Reconsidered; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Forms in the Middle-Period Dialogues; Introduction; The Theory of Forms in Phaedo; The Theory of Forms in Cratylus; The Theory of Forms in Republic; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Parmenides, Part I; Introduction; The Setting and the Main Characters of Parmenides; Socrates's Theory of Forms and His Challenge; The Extent of Forms; Parmenides's Criticism of the Participation Theory; Infinite Regress Objections and More; Radical Separation of Forms Prohibits Knowledge; The Method; Aristoteles Replaces Socrates
ConclusionChapter 3: Parmenides, Part II; Introduction; Argument 1 : If the One Is, It Is Nothing; Argument 2: If the One Has Being, It Can Be and Not Be All Things; The Appendix; Argument 3: If the Absolute One Participates, the Others Are; Argument 4: If the Absolute One Does Not Participate, the Others Are Not; The Conclusion of Arguments 1-4: Parmenides's and Ours; Argument 5: Whatever Is Said of the Negative One Must Be True and Known; Argument 6: Speaking of the Negative One, Which We Cannot Speak Of; Argument 7: If the One Is Not, the Others Appear to Be
Argument 8: If the One Is Not, the Others Neither Appear to Be nor Are AnythingThe Final Conclusion of Parmenides; Chapter 4: Parmenides in Theaetetus and Sophist; Introduction; Plato's Critique of Protagoras in Theaetetus; Parmenides and Parmenides in Sophist; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Plato'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.
Plato.
Philosophy.
Analysis (Philosophy).
Philosophy, Ancient.
Critical theory.
History of Philosophy.
Analytic Philosophy.
Classical Philosophy.
Critical Theory.