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Plato's Parmenides (Hardcover)
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The Parmenides is notorious for the criticisms it directs against
Plato's own Theory of Forms, as presented in the middle period. But
the second and major portion of the dialogue has generally been
avoided, despite its being offered as Plato's response to the
problems; the text seems intractably obscure, appearing to consist
of a series of bad arguments leading to contradictory conclusions.
Carefully analyzing these arguments and the methodological remarks
which precede them, Meinwald shows that to understand Plato's
response we need to recognize his important distinction between two
kinds of predication. Read in the light of this distinction, the
arguments can be seen to be sound, and the contradictions merely
apparent. Meinwald then proceeds to demonstrate the direct
application of Plato's crucial innovation in solving the problems
of the first part of the dialogue, including the infamous Third
Man. On Meinwald's interpretation, the new distinction is
associated with developments in metaphysics which take Plato well
beyond the problems commonly thought to tell against Platonism.
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