Plato''s Parmenides The Conversion of the Soul

Miller's study demonstrates the value of integrating hermeneutic reading and conceptual analysis. His interpretation works out in detail the purpose and argument of the Parmenides as a whole and provides a new point of departure for discussion of its place in the Platonic corpus.

Originally published in 1986.

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Mitchell H. Miller

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Miller's study demonstrates the value of integrating hermeneutic reading and conceptual analysis. His interpretation works out in detail the purpose and argument of the Parmenides as a whole and provides a new point of departure for discussion of its place in the Platonic corpus. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the

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• Authors: Mitchell Miller, Mitchell H. Miller, Mitchell H. Miller Jr., Miller Mitchell H., Mitchell H. Miller
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.03.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day
• EAN: 9780691629926
• ISBN: 978-0-691-62992-6
• Pages: 314
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Suggestion, Parmenides, Plato, paradox, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ontology, Mimesis, reality, consciousness, Reason, Concept, Existence, Idealism, Disposition, Thought, Multitude, equanimity, Søren Kierkegaard, Critical Thinking, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Conceptualism, Hypothesis, New Thought, Dialectic, Ambiguity, neoplatonism, contradiction, irony, Platonism, monism, Explication, inference, Fallacy, deductive reasoning, equivocation, Polemic, Philosopher, Socratic method, The Philosopher, Theaetetus (dialogue), Contingency (philosophy), Ipso facto, theory of forms, hypocrisy, Diairesis, Leveling (philosophy), Antipathy, Pretext, Universality (philosophy), Allegory of the Cave, Antinomy, Rhetorical question, Infinite regress, Mutatis mutandis, precognition, Parmenides (dialogue), aporia, Tautology (rhetoric), Reductio ad absurdum, Zeno's paradoxes, Intelligibility (philosophy), Conflation, Platonic realism, Identity (philosophy), Regress argument, Third man argument, Hippias Minor, Mutual exclusion, Principle of individuation, Analogy of the sun, Euthyphro (prophet)