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A review by casparb
Parmenides by Plato
3.0
My 100th book this year?
Described as the most difficult dialogue and I agree, from those I've read. At times it reads like a Gertrude Stein poem, without the flowers or lyrical brilliance.
So most of Plato is quite straightforward, in my experience. Of course, it can be enriched by the classroom experience, but I wouldn't say that's essential to understanding. Parmenides is the exception. This one needs a companion or somesuch.
It felt like an awful lot of this is collapsed by Kant's old maxim about existence not being a predicate. I'm neither a Kantian nor a Platonist so I'm not really capable of interrogating this.
Described as the most difficult dialogue and I agree, from those I've read. At times it reads like a Gertrude Stein poem, without the flowers or lyrical brilliance.
So most of Plato is quite straightforward, in my experience. Of course, it can be enriched by the classroom experience, but I wouldn't say that's essential to understanding. Parmenides is the exception. This one needs a companion or somesuch.
It felt like an awful lot of this is collapsed by Kant's old maxim about existence not being a predicate. I'm neither a Kantian nor a Platonist so I'm not really capable of interrogating this.