Plato's "Parmenides" (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Plato's "Parmenides" This treatise offers a new solution to the famous puzzle of the so-called "gymnastic" half of Plato's "Parmenides". The author shows that the work serves to introduce a metaphysics which had outgrown problems commonly associated with Plato's middle dialogues, creating a bridge to his later work.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 07 February 1991
- Format: Hardback 200 pages
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- Categories: Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500 | Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology
- ISBN 13: 9780195064452 ISBN 10: 0195064453
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Full description for Plato's "Parmenides"
This book offers a controversial new solution to the famous puzzle of the so-called 'gymnastic' half of Plato's Parmenides, the meaning of which has so far completely eluded understanding. Meinwald goes on to show that the Parmenides serves to introduce a metaphysics which has outgrown the problems commonly associated with the 'Platonism' of the middle dialogues, providing a crucial bridge between those dialogues and the later works of Plato. 'Simply stunning. [Meinwald's] interpretation of a difficult and crucial Platonic text is not just to be placed among others as one more excellent competitor. It supersedes the others.' Sandra Peterson, University of Minnesota.
