The Parmenides and Plato's late philosophy
Subtitle: translation of and commentary on the Parmenides with interpretative chapters on the Timaeus, the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus
By: Robert G. Turnbull.
Contributors: Plato.
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Plato.; Plato.
Description: From antiquity, Plato's Parmenides has been considered an enigma. In this book Robert Turnbull offers a translation and explanation of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to elucidate Plato's major late dialogues.

Turnbull claims that, in the Parmenides, Plato abandoned the earlier Phaedo account of form-participation, and instead, worked out the metaphysics of form-participation and mathematics that grounds the framework of his late philosophy. Relying on the testimony of Aristotle, Euclid, and Plotinus, and rejecting most modern accounts, Turnbull finds in the Parmenides a radical departure that clarifies and illuminates Plato's mature Pythagoreanism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-209).