Plato's Parmenides: Text, Translation Introductory Essay [Hardcover]

Arnold Hermann is an independent researcher and philosopher specializing in Presocratic philosophy, Metaphysics, and methods of thinking. He is the founder and director of the HYELE Institute for Comparative Studies, and the author of To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides—The Origins of Philosophy(Parmenides Publishing, 2004), both the illustrated and the fully annotated editions. He is currently working onPlato'sEleatic Project.

This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and 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 historical background. In view of the fact that certain individual issues have been exhaustively explored by generations of scholars, Hermann chooses to focus also on subjects that have at timele