TY - BOOK AU - Plato AU - Jowett,Benjamin TI - Parmenides AV - BPA PY - 1999/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Classical literature KW - Dialectic -- Early works to 1800 KW - Socrates, 470 BC-399 BC KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Reasoning -- Early works to 1800 KW - Ontology -- Early works to 1800 KW - Parmenides KW - Zeno, of Elea N1 - Socrates; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides_(dialogue); Release date is 1999-03-01; Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Parmenides" by Plato is a dialogue written in ancient Greece. It depicts a young Socrates meeting the renowned philosophers Parmenides and Zeno, who challenge his Theory of Forms. Through rigorous questioning, Parmenides presents five complex arguments that expose potential contradictions in Socrates' distinction between eternal Forms and particular things. The work reverses the usual dynamic, positioning Socrates as student rather than teacher, and explores fundamental questions about unity, plurality, and the nature of reality itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1687 ER -