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Parmenides
Plato · Classical · c. 370 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
9 chapters
Plato's most difficult dialogue — a young Socrates is examined by the venerable Parmenides on the theory of Forms, followed by a famously austere training exercise on the One.
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Contents
- 1The Frame: Cephalus and Antiphon
- 2Zeno's Paradoxes and Socrates's Theory of Forms
- 3Objections to the Forms — The Third Man
- 4The Need for Dialectical Training
- 5Hypothesis I: If One Is, in the Strict Sense
- 6Hypothesis II: If One Has Being
- 7Hypotheses III–IV: The Others if One Is
- 8Hypotheses V–VI: If One Is Not
- 9Hypotheses VII–VIII: The Others if One Is Not
