Parmenides
Plato
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Description
A very young Socrates meets a very old Parmenides in this dialogue, and the meeting turns into the hardest argument Plato ever wrote. If each thing has a Form — one, being, likeness — how do Forms relate to each other, and to the things that share in them.
The second half of the dialogue is a long, exacting exercise: suppose the One exists, suppose it does not, and follow each path to its end. It is the most difficult of Plato's dialogues, and interpreters have argued over it ever since. Readers who want Plato at his most rigorous, testing his own ideas rather than defending them, should start here.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Plato |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 192 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |