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 / Robert G. Turnbull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turnbull, Robert G.

Series:

Toronto studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Parmenides.

Plato.

Plato. Dialogues.

Physical Description:

xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Summary:

From Antiquity, Plato's Parmenides Has Been Considered An Enigma. In This book Robert Turnbull offers a close and detailed reading of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to illuminate Plato's major late dialogues. The picture presented of Plato's later philosophy is plausible, highly interesting, and original.

The basis of this picture is Turnbull's claim that Plato, in the Parmenides, abandoned the earlier Phaedo account of form-participation. In its stead, says Turnbull, Plato 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 both clarifies and illuminates Plato's mature Pythagoreanism.

There is at present no standard modern interpretation of the Parmenides or of Plato's late dialogues. This work develops a picture that could become that standard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-209).

ISBN:

0802042368

OCLC:

39856414