Parmenide
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~35.200 parole · 167 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPlatone. (n.d.). Parmenides [Parmenide]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plato/parmenides
- MLAPlatone. Parmenides [Parmenide]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plato/parmenides.
- ChicagoPlatone. Parmenides [Parmenide]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plato/parmenides.
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Di che cosa tratta
Un giovane Socrate le prende di santa ragione, dialetticamente, dall'anziano Parmenide, che smonta la teoria delle idee con obiezioni a cui Platone non risponde mai.
Contesto e storia
Il testo in cui Platone critica Platone più duramente di quanto abbia fatto qualunque avversario, compreso l'argomento del terzo uomo, tuttora l'obiezione standard alle teorie degli universali. La sua seconda metà, otto deduzioni sull'uno, ha nutrito tutto il neoplatonismo.
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have divided the two spheres, and forbidden any passing from one to the other:--the gods have knowledge and authority in their world only, as we have in ours.' 'Yet, surely, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.'--'These are some of the difficulties which are involved in the assumption of absolute ideas; the learner will find them nearly impossible to understand, and the teacher who has to impart them will require superhuman ability; there will always be a suspicion, either that they have no existence, or are beyond human knowledge.' 'There I agree with you,' said Socrates. 'Yet if these difficulties induce you to give up universal ideas, what becomes of the mind? and where are the reasoning and reflecting powers? philosophy is at an end.' 'I certainly do not see my way.' 'I think,' said Parmenides, 'that this arises out of your attempting to define abstractions, such as the good and the beautiful and the just, before you have had sufficient previous training; I noticed your deficiency when you were talking with Aristoteles, the day before yesterday. Your enthusiasm is a wonderful gift; but I fear that unless you discipline yourself by dialectic while you are young, truth will elude your grasp.' 'And what kind of discipline would you recommend?' 'The training which you heard Zeno practising; at the same time, I admire your saying to him that you did not care to consider the difficulty in reference to visible objects, but only in relation to ideas.' 'Yes; because I think that in visible objects you may easily show any number of inconsistent consequences.' 'Yes; and you should consider, not only the consequences which follow from a given hypothesis, but the consequences also which follow from the denial of the hypothesis.…