The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy

副标题: Translation of and Commentary on the Parmenides with Interpretative Chapters on the Timaeus, the ... the Philebus

ISBN: 9780802042361

作者: Robert G·Turnbull

出版社: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

出版年: 1998-3-21

页数: 209

定价: USD 62.00

装帧: Hardcover

译者: Robert G·Turnbull

内容简介

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 illuminate 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 that clarifies and illuminates Plato's mature Pythagoreanism.Until now there has been no standard modern interpretation of the Parmenides or of Plato's late dialogues. Professor Turnbull's book, with its meticulous translation and careful analysis, could well become that standard interpretation.