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Charmides
    Part
  1 PreF |        to lay hands on my father Parmenides’ (Soph.), who will, I hope,
  2 PreS |       excellent criticism of the Parmenides; and, above all, of the
  3 PreS |    Philebus, Sophist, Politicus, Parmenides, Timaeus. In the first stage
  4 PreS |   sciences, in the period of the Parmenides and the Philebus, it is
  5 PreS |  departure are discovered in the Parmenides and in the Theaetetus; and
  6 PreS |         We cannot argue from the Parmenides to the Philebus, or from
  7 PreS |      Sophist, or assume that the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the Timaeus
  8 PreS |   Phaedrus, the Sophist, and the Parmenides, have more than one subject.
  9 PreS |    casual statement found in the Parmenides to other statements which
 10 PreS |       genus, the (Greek), in the Parmenides his aspirations are less
 11 Intro|          in the Prologues to the Parmenides, but seems rather to belong


Euthydemus
    Part
 12 Intro|      being are worked out in the Parmenides. Here we have most of the


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 13 Pre  |      great writings, such as the Parmenides and the Politicus, which
 14 Pre  |          a certain extent in the Parmenides.~To these two doubtful writings
 15 Pre  |     other dialogues, such as the Parmenides, and the Sophist, and Politicus,


Menexenus
    Part
 16 Pre  |      great writings, such as the Parmenides and the Politicus, which
 17 Pre  |          a certain extent in the Parmenides.~To these two doubtful writings
 18 Pre  |     other dialogues, such as the Parmenides, and the Sophist, and Politicus,


Meno
    Part
 19 Intro|         criticism of them in the Parmenides, the personal form which
 20 Intro|         Tim.).~Passing on to the Parmenides, we find in that dialogue
 21 Intro|         the mouth of the veteran Parmenides, and might be ascribed to
 22 Intro|          becomes of philosophy? (Parmenides.) In the Sophist the theory
 23 Intro|      that between Xenophanes and Parmenides. The teaching of Spinoza
 24 Intro|         Eleatic philosophy. Like Parmenides, he is overpowered and intoxicated


Parmenides
    Part
 25 -    |                                  Parmenides~
 26 Intro|         character of ‘the great’ Parmenides has extended to the dialogue
 27 Intro|         this surprising. For the Parmenides is more fragmentary and
 28 Intro|        sentiments by the lips of Parmenides, and overthrowing him out
 29 Intro|        been admitted by Zeno and Parmenides themselves. The contradictions
 30 Intro|     understood them or not.’~The Parmenides in point of style is one
 31 Intro|    informed by him that Zeno and Parmenides were not altogether pleased
 32 Intro|         are glad to be told that Parmenides was ‘aged but well-favoured,’
 33 Intro|         good-looking’; also that Parmenides affected to decline the
 34 Intro| Respecting the visit of Zeno and Parmenides to Athens, we may observe—
 35 Intro|          determining the date of Parmenides and Zeno; fourthly, that
 36 Intro|   interpreters have regarded the Parmenides as a ‘reductio ad absurdum’
 37 Intro|        in the mouth of the great Parmenides himself, who appeared to
 38 Intro|          lay hands on his father Parmenides.’ Nothing of this kind is
 39 Intro|         kind is said of Zeno and Parmenides. How then, without a word
 40 Intro|          must arrive is that the Parmenides is not a refutation of the
 41 Intro|       that no explanation of the Parmenides can be satisfactory which
 42 Intro|        go out of his way to make Parmenides attack the Platonic Ideas,
 43 Intro|         writings, to condemn the Parmenides as spurious. The accidental
 44 Intro|       knew the work. And, if the Parmenides is spurious, like Ueberweg,
 45 Intro|         immediate subject of the Parmenides, we may remark that Plato
 46 Intro|    conversation of Socrates with Parmenides and Zeno, of which the report
 47 Intro|         to him the appearance of Parmenides and Zeno; they had come
 48 Intro|          to have been beloved of Parmenides in the days of his youth,
 49 Intro|          Pythodorus entered with Parmenides and Aristoteles, who was
 50 Intro|        said Socrates, turning to Parmenides, ‘that Zeno is your second
 51 Intro|         only intended to protect Parmenides against ridicule by showing
 52 Intro|         said that in his opinion Parmenides and Zeno were not very well
 53 Intro|        Socrates. ‘Tell me,’ said Parmenides, ‘do you think that the
 54 Intro|         are base and vile?’ ‘No, Parmenides; visible things like these
 55 Intro|        Socrates. ‘Because,’ said Parmenides, ‘in that case the whole,
 56 Intro|          same sort of way,’ said Parmenides, ‘as a sail, which is one,
 57 Intro|         my way.’ ‘I think,’ said Parmenides, ‘that this arises out of
 58 Intro|         a man of my years,’ said Parmenides. ‘Then will you, Zeno?’ ‘
 59 Intro|         Zeno, with a smile, ‘ask Parmenides, for the undertaking is
 60 Intro|      like.~It was no wonder that Parmenides and Zeno should hear the
 61 Intro|   submitted to the criticisms of Parmenides.~To appreciate truly the
 62 Intro|       remember the place held by Parmenides in the history of Greek
 63 Intro|       incongruity in the veteran Parmenides correcting the youthful
 64 Intro|         of notice. First of all, Parmenides tries him by the test of
 65 Intro|         well as of the greatest? Parmenides rebukes this want of consistency
 66 Intro|           The other criticism of Parmenides on Socrates attributes to
 67 Intro|    Megarian philosophers. Still, Parmenides does not deny to Socrates
 68 Intro|      discussion of Socrates with Parmenides is one of the most remarkable
 69 Intro|       The first difficulty which Parmenides raises respecting the Platonic
 70 Intro|       they merely resemble them? Parmenides shows that objections may
 71 Intro|          counter illustration of Parmenides, who compares the idea of
 72 Intro|     answer, which is repelled by Parmenides with another truth or half-truth
 73 Intro|         and independent of them? Parmenides draws out this difficulty
 74 Intro|         speaking by the mouth of Parmenides, does not treat even this
 75 Intro|       them; for, as Socrates and Parmenides both admit, the denial of
 76 Intro|       the nature of the process. Parmenides attributes the difficulties
 77 Intro|       dialogue.~The paradoxes of Parmenides seem trivial to us, because
 78 Intro|      over their minds. To do the Parmenides justice, we should imagine
 79 Intro|         from the manner in which Parmenides speaks of a similar method
 80 Intro|        that the obscurity of the Parmenides would not have existed to
 81 Intro|     remarking that the theses of Parmenides are expressly said to follow
 82 Intro|          of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school.
 83 Intro|       existence of the many, and Parmenides seems to aim at proving
 84 Intro|        denial of the many, or of Parmenides’ assault upon the Ideas;
 85 Intro|   dialectics. But to the mind of Parmenides and Plato, ‘Gott-betrunkene
 86 Intro|         aim of the hypotheses of Parmenides is to criticize the earlier
 87 Intro|       attributing to the ‘father Parmenides’ the last review of the
 88 Intro|          final conclusion of the Parmenides either as sceptical or as
 89 Intro|         be put into the mouth of Parmenides, who, in this very dialogue,
 90 Intro|         would hardly have chosen Parmenides, the condemner of the ‘undiscerning
 91 Intro|     mazes of the labyrinth which Parmenides knew so well, and trembled
 92 Intro|           I cannot refuse,’ said Parmenides, ‘since, as Zeno remarks,
 93 Intro|           The processes by which Parmenides obtains his remarkable results
 94 Intro|     which flow from them.~In the Parmenides we seem to breathe the spirit
 95 Intro|          the one and many of the Parmenides have precisely the same
 96 Intro|       2ndly, the relation of the Parmenides to the other dialogues.~
 97 Intro|       answer the questions which Parmenides asks of Socrates. And yet
 98 Intro|     conceiving them is required. Parmenides may still have thought that ‘
 99 Intro|          already discussing: (2) Parmenides has intimated in the first
100 Intro|         against the One.~II. The Parmenides is not only a criticism
101 Intro|          refutation of them. The Parmenides belongs to that stage of
102 Intro|         teaching.~To sum up: the Parmenides of Plato is a critique,
103 Intro|          been provided.’~...~The Parmenides of Plato belongs to a stage
104 Intro|   searching cross-examination of Parmenides; and may at last perhaps
105 Intro|      illusion.~The method of the Parmenides may be compared with the
106 Intro|      which Plato by the mouth of Parmenides makes between ‘One is one’
107 Text |                                  PARMENIDES~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
108 Text |      Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristoteles.~Cephalus rehearses
109 Text |      between Socrates, Zeno, and Parmenides many years ago, Pythodorus
110 Text |         to him the appearance of Parmenides and Zeno; they came to Athens,
111 Text |          to have been beloved by Parmenides. He said that they lodged
112 Text |        to them in the absence of Parmenides, and had very nearly finished
113 Text | Pythodorus entered, and with him Parmenides and Aristoteles who was
114 Text |          general purpose.~I see, Parmenides, said Socrates, that Zeno
115 Text |         protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fun
116 Text |          Pythodorus thought that Parmenides and Zeno were not altogether
117 Text |       him. When he had finished, Parmenides expressed their feelings
118 Text |       such ideas, said Socrates.~Parmenides proceeded: And would you
119 Text |     water?~I am often undecided, Parmenides, as to whether I ought to
120 Text |        them.~Yes, Socrates, said Parmenides; that is because you are
121 Text |        one of the many?~Why not, Parmenides? said Socrates.~Because
122 Text |      easily answered.~Well, said Parmenides, and what do you say of
123 Text |   existence except in our minds, Parmenides? For in that case each idea
124 Text |         is no escape.~Then, said Parmenides, if you say that everything
125 Text |        thought?~The latter view, Parmenides, is no more rational than
126 Text |         known.~What do you mean, Parmenides? said Socrates.~In the first
127 Text |        meaning in this way, said Parmenides:—A master has a slave; now
128 Text |          Because, Socrates, said Parmenides, we have admitted that the
129 Text | monstrous.~These, Socrates, said Parmenides, are a few, and only a few
130 Text |        others.~I agree with you, Parmenides, said Socrates; and what
131 Text |          And yet, Socrates, said Parmenides, if a man, fixing his attention
132 Text |        way at present.~Yes, said Parmenides; and I think that this arises,
133 Text |         nature of this exercise, Parmenides, which you would recommend?~
134 Text |       anything.~Quite true, said Parmenides; but I think that you should
135 Text |        see the real truth.~That, Parmenides, is a tremendous business
136 Text |          us make our petition to Parmenides himself, who is quite right
137 Text |       and wisdom. And therefore, Parmenides, I join in the request of
138 Text |          whole company entreated Parmenides to give an example of the
139 Text |   process. I cannot refuse, said Parmenides; and yet I feel rather like
140 Text |        am the one whom you mean, Parmenides, said Aristoteles; for I
141 Text |          Ask, and I will answer.~Parmenides proceeded: 1.a. If one is,


Phaedo
    Part
142 Intro|         Heracleitus. The Eleatic Parmenides had stumbled upon the modern


Phaedrus
    Part
143 Intro|          of the ideal state; the Parmenides between the criticism of
144 Intro|          occurs in the verses of Parmenides; but it is important to
145 Intro|        remark that the horses of Parmenides have no allegorical meaning,


Philebus
    Part
146 Intro|         criticism of them in the Parmenides. He touches on the same
147 Intro|      sense.~Both here and in the Parmenides, where similar difficulties
148 Intro|     which, like the ideas in the Parmenides, are always appearing one
149 Intro|        already manifested in the Parmenides and the Sophist. The principle
150 Intro|        be interposed between the Parmenides or Philebus of Plato, and


The Sophist
    Part
151 Intro|          described as a pupil of Parmenides and Zeno, and is supposed
152 Intro|     Statesman, as well as in the Parmenides, he probably means to imply
153 Intro|        of his father and master, Parmenides, who is the protagonist
154 Intro|          lay hands on his father Parmenides; or, once more, the likening
155 Intro|      youth, which he ascribes to Parmenides, and which was evidently
156 Intro|          parted by a great gulf (Parmenides); at other times they have
157 Intro|       the passionate language of Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain
158 Intro|        and is connected with the Parmenides by a direct allusion (compare
159 Intro|  Introductions to Theaetetus and Parmenides). In the Theaetetus we sought
160 Intro| possibility of falsehood. To the Parmenides, the Sophist stands in a
161 Intro|       And this is what the great Parmenides was all his life denying
162 Intro|      must lay hands on my father Parmenides; but do not call me a parricide;
163 Intro|        in the days of our youth, Parmenides and others told us tales
164 Intro|          a whole—in the words of Parmenides, ‘like every way unto a
165 Intro|         being. Thus, in spite of Parmenides, we have not only discovered
166 Intro|          differences. And in the Parmenides he deduces the many from
167 Intro|       opposites, although in the Parmenides he shows an Hegelian subtlety
168 Text |       Elea, who is a disciple of Parmenides and Zeno, and a true philosopher.~
169 Text |        noble discussion in which Parmenides employed the latter of the
170 Text |      when I was a boy, the great Parmenides protested against this doctrine,
171 Text |       that one of the hearers of Parmenides was asked, ‘To what is the
172 Text |          philosophy of my father Parmenides, and try to prove by main
173 Text |           STRANGER: I think that Parmenides, and all ever yet undertook
174 Text |          If being is a whole, as Parmenides sings,—~‘Every way like
175 Text |   carried us beyond the range of Parmenides’ prohibition?~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
    Part
176 Intro|      Republic, the Philebus, the Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may
177 Intro|        them with the Theaetetus, Parmenides, and Philebus, involves
178 Intro|         with the Theaetetus, the Parmenides, the Philebus, the arguments
179 Intro|        Laws. And the Theaetetus, Parmenides, and Philebus, supply links,


The Symposium
    Part
180 Text |       two, came into being. Also Parmenides sings of Generation:~‘First
181 Text |         gods of which Hesiod and Parmenides spoke, if the tradition


Theaetetus
    Part
182 Intro|         The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity
183 Intro|      dialogues to the meeting of Parmenides and Socrates (Theaet., Soph.);
184 Intro|   influences which appear in the Parmenides, and which later writers,
185 Intro|         of time. The allusion to Parmenides compared with the Sophist,
186 Intro|       Platonic Trilogy. Both the Parmenides and the Sophist, and still
187 Intro|        thought and language. The Parmenides, again, has been thought
188 Intro|          have been raised in the Parmenides. Any of these arrangements
189 Intro|       compare Symposium, Phaedo, Parmenides), is then dropped. No further
190 Intro|         in the first part of the Parmenides, where he is introduced
191 Intro|          the single exception of Parmenides; Empedocles, Heracleitus,
192 Intro|         is the name for all,’~as Parmenides affirms. Thus we are in
193 Intro|          reverence for the great Parmenides lightly to attack him. (
194 Intro|    sullogismo).’ Here, is in the Parmenides, he means something not
195 Text |        and with the exception of Parmenides they will agree with you
196 Text |          This is the language of Parmenides, Melissus, and their followers,
197 Text |        the great leader himself, Parmenides, venerable and awful, as


Timaeus
    Part
198 Intro|           As in the Cratylus and Parmenides, we are uncertain whether
199 Intro|   principles of language; in the Parmenides overthrowing Megarianism
200 Intro|          and almost the words of Parmenides when he discourses of being
201 Intro|          e.g. the Timaeus by the Parmenides or Phaedrus or Philebus.~
202 Intro|    creator. The old tradition of Parmenides and of the Eleatic Being,
203 Intro|     Plato, as we gather from the Parmenides. The consciousness of them
204 Intro|        passionate earnestness of Parmenides contrasts with the vacuity
205 Intro|        therefore here, as in the Parmenides, we are in doubt how far
206 Intro|          the ‘generous depth’ of Parmenides (Theaet.).~There is a similarity
207 Intro|         meanings to the words of Parmenides and Heracleitus; but at