Author: Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 2003-07-08
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Category : Philosophy
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Plato S Parmenides

Book by Samuel Scolnicov, Plato S Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato S Parmenides books, Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.

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Author: Constance C. Meinwald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1991-02-07
Size: 68.47 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Book by Constance C. Meinwald, Plato S Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato S Parmenides books, The Parmenides is notorious for the criticisms it directs against Plato's own Theory of Forms, as presented in the middle period. But the second and major portion of the dialogue has generally been avoided, despite its being offered as Plato's response to the problems; the text seems intractably obscure, appearing to consist of a series of bad arguments leading to contradictory conclusions. Carefully analyzing these arguments and the methodological remarks which precede them, Meinwald shows that to understand Plato's response we need to recognize his important distinction between two kinds of predication. Read in the light of this distinction, the arguments can be seen to be sound, and the contradictions merely apparent. Meinwald then proceeds to demonstrate the direct application of Plato's crucial innovation in solving the problems of the first part of the dialogue, including the infamous Third Man. On Meinwald's interpretation, the new distinction is associated with developments in metaphysics which take Plato well beyond the problems commonly thought to tell against Platonism.

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Author: Robert G. Turnbull
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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The Parmenides And Plato S Late Philosophy

Book by Robert G. Turnbull, The Parmenides And Plato S Late Philosophy Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Parmenides And Plato S Late Philosophy books, Turnbull offers a close and detailed reading of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to illuminate Plato's major late dialogues. The picture presented of Plato's later philosophy is plausible, highly interesting, and original.

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Author: Arnold Hermann
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Category : Philosophy
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Book by Arnold Hermann, Plato S Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato S Parmenides books, Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. The Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike.

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Author: Plato
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Release Date: 1958
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Plato And Parmenides

Book by Plato, Plato And Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato And Parmenides books,

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Author: John Douglas Turner
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Release Date: 2011
Size: 40.23 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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Plato S Parmenides And Its Heritage The Hidden Influence Of The Parmenides In Philo Origen And Later Patristic Thought

Book by John Douglas Turner, Plato S Parmenides And Its Heritage The Hidden Influence Of The Parmenides In Philo Origen And Later Patristic Thought Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato S Parmenides And Its Heritage The Hidden Influence Of The Parmenides In Philo Origen And Later Patristic Thought books, Volume 2 examines and establishes for the first time evidence for a significant knowledge of the Parmenides in Philo, Clement, and patristic sources. It offers an extensive and balanced analysis of the case for and against the various possible attributions of date and authorship of the Anonymous Commentary in relation to Gnosticism, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism and argues that on balance the case for a pre-Plotinian authorship is warranted.

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Author: John A. Palmer
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date: 1999-04-08
Size: 24.45 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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Plato S Reception Of Parmenides

Book by John A. Palmer, Plato S Reception Of Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato S Reception Of Parmenides books, John Palmer presents a new and original account of Plato's uses and understanding of his most important Presocratic predecessor, Parmenides. Adopting an innovative approach to the appraisal of intellectual influence, Palmer first explores the Eleatic underpinnings of central elements in Plato's middle-period epistemology and metaphysics. He then shows how in the later dialogues Plato confronts various sophistic appropriations of Parmenides while simultaneously developing his own deepened understanding. Along the way Palmer gives fresh readings of Parmenides' poem in the light of the Platonic reception, and discusses Plato's view of Parmenides' relation to such key figures as Xenophanes, Zeno, and Gorgias. By tracing connections among the uses of Parmenides over the course of several dialogues, Palmer both demonstrates his fundamental importance to the development of Plato's thought and furthers understanding of central problems in Plato's own philosophy.

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Author: William A. Welton
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date: 2002
Size: 11.13 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Plato S Forms

Book by William A. Welton, Plato S Forms Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato S Forms books, The "theory of forms" usually attributed to Plato is one of the most famous of philosophical theories, yet it has engendered such controversy in the literature on Plato that scholars even debate whether or not such a theory exists in his texts. Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the forms in Plato's dialogues. With contributions rooted in both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, the book illustrates the contentious role the forms have played in Platonic scholarship and suggests new approaches to a central problem of Plato studies.

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Author: Plato
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date: 1996
Size: 41.17 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Parmenides

Book by Plato, Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Parmenides books, A collection of 15 essays written by librarians for librarians relating problems and successes in managing library automation. The contributors illustrate the key elements of forecasting, planning, implementing, and monitoring necessary for successful public, academic or specialized libraries. They specifically point to topics in local area networks, CD-ROM evolution, using technologies for cataloging, system migrating, and "how to survive without enough" time or money. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Author: Francis MacDonald Cornford
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2014-06-11
Size: 40.85 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Plato And Parmenides

Book by Francis MacDonald Cornford, Plato And Parmenides Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Plato And Parmenides books, First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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