Parmenides

By Plato

Parmenides - Plato
  • Release Date: 2008-11-03
  • Genre: Philosophy

Description

Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. In this book, Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that proceeds on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities