Parmenides
Parmenides is a free 118-page philosophy (academic) ebook by Plato., published Mar 2012. It is free to download in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats — no payment required. Rated 5.0/5 by 2 readers. Downloaded 458 times.
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The Parmenides is, quite possibly, the most enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The dialogue recounts an almost certainly fictitious conversation between a venerable Parmenides (the Eleatic Monist) and a youthful Socrates, followed by a dizzying array of interconnected arguments presented by Parmenides to a young and compliant interlocutor named “Aristotle” (not the philosopher, but rather a man who became one of the Thirty Tyrants after Athens' surrender to Sparta at the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War). Most commentators agree that Socrates articulates a version of the theory of forms defended by his much older namesake in the dialogues of Plato's middle period, that Parmenides mounts a number of potentially devastating challenges to this theory, and that these challenges are followe...
Last updated: March 10, 2012
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