Others within this group read the second part more or less at face value, as a demonstration of a logical method that will enable Their originator, in an effort by Plato to show that Zeno's own monistic views lead to absurdities of the very sort he purports to demonstrate against theĬhampions of pluralism.
Within this group, some read Parmenides II as a polemical tour-de-force in which methods of argument derived from Zeno are turned against As Proclus notes in the first book of his commentary, (4) some readers view the dialogue as anĮxercise in logic. (3) and both have prominent followers in the present century. Two major lines of interpretation were already established by the time of Proclus' Parmenides Commentary in the fifth century A.D., As a result, not only are individual arguments often very hard to decipher, but moreover it is far from apparent what Plato was trying toĪccomplish with these arguments in the first place. To make matters worse, the argumentation of the second part is so extremely condensed that it sometimes gives the appearance of being One source of perplexity is that this latter portion fails toĮxhibit any obvious continuity of subject matter with the first part of the dialogue (" Parmenides I"), making it difficult to determine what the dialogue as a Portion of the dialogue (Stephanus 137C-166C, referred to subsequently as " Parmenides II"). The main problem of interpretation, most agree, is what to make of Plato's treatment of the several hypotheses that constitutes the second In this century has begun with some remark about its extraordinary difficulty (2) and no line of interpretation has yet been offered that a majority of Almost every major discussion of the Parmenides Millennia of documented commentary, however, scholars today are still struggling to make sense of the dialogue. "Plato's Parmenides was probably written within the last two decades preceding the death of its author in 347 B.C. Index of the Section: Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic PeriodĪnnotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the websiteĪncient interpretations of Plato's Parmenides Bibliographie des études en Français (M - Z) Bibliographie des études en Français (A - L) Annotated bibliography (Say - Zuc)īibliographies on Plato's Sophist in other languages: Selected and Annotated bibliography of studies on Plato's Sophist in English: Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist Selected bibliography on Plato's Parmenides Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation (Current page)
Plato: Bibliographical Resources on Selected Dialogues This part of the section History of Ontology includes of the following pages:
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