Parmenides - Plato - Books - Independently Published - 9798696455372 - December 27, 2020
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Parmenides

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Book Excerpt: ... Eleatics. For of all the pre-Socratic philosophers, he speaks of them with the greatest respect. But he could hardly have passed upon them a more unmeaning slight than to ascribe to their great master tenets the reverse of those which he actually held. Two preliminary remarks may be made. First, that whatever latitude we may allow to Plato in bringing together by a 'tour de force, ' as in the Phaedrus, dissimilar themes, yet he always in some way seeks to find a connexion for them. Many threads join together in one the love and dialectic of the Phaedrus. We cannot conceive that the great artist would place in juxtaposition two absolutely divided and incoherent subjects. And hence we are led to make a second remark: viz. that no explanation of the Parmenides can be satisfactory which does not indicate the connexion of the first and second parts. To suppose that Plato would first go out of his way to make Parmenides attack the Platonic Ideas, and then proceed to a similar but more fatal assault on his ow...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 27, 2020
ISBN13 9798696455372
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 50
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 3 mm   ·   81 g
Language English  

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