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Plato's "Parmenides"
Hermann, Arnold; Chrysakopoulou, Sylvana. Ed(S): Most, Glenn W.
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Description for Plato's "Parmenides"
Paperback. Offers an account of the way the Parmenides was received by different cultures and philosophical schools throughout the centuries to the present day. Editor(s): Most, Glenn W. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 484.
This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelligibility with faithfulness—while maintaining sufficient consistency to allow the discernment of technical terms—great pains have been taken to secure both accuracy and accessibility. In his Foreword, Douglas Hedley gives an insightful account of the way the Parmenides was received by different cultures and philosophical schools throughout the centuries to the present day.
Hermann’s Introduction, aimed at first time readers and professional interpreters alike, offers an overview of the most noted philosophical problems addressed in the dialogue, and of its ... Read more
This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelligibility with faithfulness—while maintaining sufficient consistency to allow the discernment of technical terms—great pains have been taken to secure both accuracy and accessibility. In his Foreword, Douglas Hedley gives an insightful account of the way the Parmenides was received by different cultures and philosophical schools throughout the centuries to the present day.
Hermann’s Introduction, aimed at first time readers and professional interpreters alike, offers an overview of the most noted philosophical problems addressed in the dialogue, and of its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Parmenides Publishing United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Las Vegas, United States
ISBN
9781930972209
SKU
V9781930972209
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About Hermann, Arnold; Chrysakopoulou, Sylvana. Ed(S): Most, Glenn W.
Arnold Hermann is an independent researcher and philosopher specializing in Presocratic philosophy, Metaphysics, and methods of thinking. He is the author of To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides—The Origins of Philosophy (Parmenides Publishing, 2004 & 2005), both the illustrated as well as the fully annotated edition. He is currently working on Plato's Eleatic Project.
Reviews for Plato's "Parmenides"
In his 70-page introduction, Arnold Hermann himself is somewhat more restrained. He sees the First Part of the dialogue as targeting ‘naive misreadings’ (15) of the Theory of Forms, and the Second Part as ‘a successful attempt to illuminate the difficulties raised by the First’ (17). For instance (to take an easy example), a form is ‘itself by itself’, and ... Read more