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Plato's Parmenides Reconsidered offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account of Plato's Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose the absurd nature of the doctrines and method of his philosophical opponents.
List of contents
Introduction 1 Forms in the Middle-Period Dialogues Introduction The Theory of Forms in Phaedo The Theory of Forms in Cratylus The Theory of Forms in Republic Conclusion 2 Parmenides, Part I Introduction The Setting and the Main Characters of Parmenides Socrates's Theory of Forms and His Challenge The Extent of Forms Parmenides's Criticism of the Participation Theory Infinite Regress Objections and More Radical Separation of Forms Prohibits Knowledge The Method Aristoteles Replaces Socrates Conclusion 3 Parmenides, Part II Introduction Argument 1: If the One Is, It Is Nothing Argument 2: If the One Has Being, It Can Be and Not Be All Things The Appendix Argument 3: If the Absolute One Participates, the Others Are Argument 4: If the Absolute One Does Not Participate, the Others Are Not The Conclusion of Arguments 1-4: Parmenides's and Ours Argument 5: Whatever Is Said of the Negative One Must Be True and Known Argument 6: Speaking of the Negative One, Which We Cannot Speak Of Argument 7: If the One Is Not, the Others Appear to Be Argument 8: If the One Is Not, the Others Neither Appear to Be nor Are Anything The Final Conclusion of Parmenides 4 Parmenides in Theaetetus and Sophist Introduction Plato's Critique of Protagoras in Theaetetus Parmenides and Parmenides in Sophist Conclusion
About the author
Mehmet Tabak is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. He has published several scholarly articles on Marx thought. This is his first book.
