The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy: translation of and commentary on the Parmenides with interpretative chapters on the Timaeus, the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus

The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy: translation of and commentary on the Parmenides with interpretative chapters on the Timaeus, the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus

"From antiquity, Plato's Parmenides has been considered an enigma. In this book Robert Turnbull offers a translation and explanation of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to elucidate Plato's major late dialogues." "Turnbull claims that, in the Parmenides, Plato abandoned the earlier Phaedo account of form-participation, and instead, worked out the metaphysics of form-participation and mathematics that grounds the framework of his late philosophy. Relying on the testimony of Aristotle, Euclid, and Plotinus, and rejecting most modern accounts, Turnbull finds in the Parmenides a radical departure that clarifies and illuminates Plato's mature Pythagoreanism."--Jacket.

Robert G. Turnbull

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press

1. Introduction -- 2. Zeno's Stricture, Predication, and 'Having Shares' (126A-35C) -- 3. The Needed Exercise and Supposition One (135C-42A) -- 4. Supposition Two as the Clue to the Parmenides -- 5. Supposition Two, Part One (142B-48D) -- 6. Supposition Two, Part Two (148D-55E) -- 7. The 'Coda' and the Remaining Affirmative Suppositions (155E-60B) -- 8. The 'One' and the 'Others' on Both Versions of If One Is Not (160B-66C) -- 9. The Timaeus -- 10. The Theaetetus and the Sophist -- 11. The Philebus -- App. Other Approaches to the Parmenides.

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