There is a mystery at the heart of Plato's Parmenides. In the first
part, Parmenides criticizes what is widely regarded as Plato's
mature theory of Forms, and in the second, he promises to explain
how the Forms can be saved from these criticisms. Ever since the
dialogue was written, scholars have struggled to determine how the
two parts of the work fit together. Did Plato mean us to abandon,
keep, or modify the theory of Forms, on the strength of Parmenides'
criticisms? Samuel Rickless offers something that has never been
done before: a careful reconstruction of every argument in the
dialogue. He concludes that Plato's main aim was to argue that the
theory of Forms should be modified by allowing that forms can have
contrary properties. To grasp this is to solve the mystery of the
Parmenides and understand its crucial role in Plato's philosophical
development.
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