A model of readability and clarity. Translation in English, including an introduction and a brief glossary. This dialogue is among Plato's most difficult. Whitaker provides a clear entry to Plato and Platonic thinking and a succinct translation of the work itself.

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 ...(展开全部)

An English translation of a major work by the great Neoplatonist philosopher, whose commentary greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. It comprises a full account of Proclus's own metaphysical system, disguised in the form of commentary.

The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that ...(展开全部)

The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that ...(展开全部)

...excellent translation ...--The Philosopher Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg during the winter semester of 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A Major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book challenges some of the most firmly establis...(展开全部)

...excellent translation ...--The Philosopher Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg during the winter semester of 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A Major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book challenges some of the most firmly establis...(展开全部)

This book is a revised and expanded version of A.H. Coxon's full critical edition of the extant remains of Parmenides of Elea - the fifth-century B.C. philosopher by many considered 'one of the greatest and most astonishing thinkers of all times'. (Karl Popper) Coxon's presentation of the complete ancient evidence for Parmenides and his comprehensive examination of the fragment...(展开全部)