Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack
the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn
proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from
the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing
how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late
metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the
theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has
generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work.
Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on
Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction
of a wider theory of Being that provides the background for the
creation story of the Timaeus. This rich study, the natural
successor to Kahn's earlier Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, will
interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and science.
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