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Parmenides

Brand: Plato
Collection: Sources Collection
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Product Code:: 2161-01
ISBN: 978-619-01-0274-8
SKU: 16.0209

Year: 02-07-2018
Translation: from Ancient Greek: Tzotcho Boiadjiev
Pages: 136
Size: 110/190 мм
Weight: 0.28 kg
Collection: Колекция "Извори"
Cover Type: Paperback
Genre: Ancient Philosophy

Plato

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire work is believed to have surviv…

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Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the more, if not the most, challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides' supposition that there is a one gives rise to intolerable absurdities and contradictions.