Plato's Parmenides

by Constance C. Meinwald

The Parmenides is notorious for the criticisms it directs against Plato's own Theory of Forms, as presented in the middle period. But the second and major portion of the dialogue has generally been avoided, despite its being offered as Plato's response to the problems; the text seems intractably obscure, appearing to consist of a series of bad arguments leading to contradictory conclusions. Carefully analyzing these arguments and the methodological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064453
• ISBN13: 9780195064452
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"