{"product_id":"parmenides","title":"Parmenides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if the idea that explains reality cannot survive its own hardest questions?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Plato’s Parmenides, a young Socrates meets the elderly Parmenides and his follower Zeno in an imagined conversation in Athens. Socrates offers the theory of Forms as an answer to Zeno’s puzzle: many different things can share one nature. But Parmenides presses him. How can things share a Form without dividing it or multiplying the problem?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlato lets a formidable thinker challenge his own best-known idea, then turns the conversation into a demanding exercise in reasoning. Parmenides takes up the One and asks what follows if it is. Being, unity, plurality and time become questions to work through, not answers to accept. The argument is hard, but its moves can be followed with care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSocrates under pressure\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a young thinker whose answer to Zeno opens the way to searching objections.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOne nature, many things\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore why sharing a Form raises difficult questions about wholes, parts and likeness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA theory tests itself\u003c\/strong\u003e – Watch Plato expose the theory of Forms to objections rather than shield it from scrutiny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe puzzle of unity\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Parmenides as he examines the One through a sustained exercise in reasoning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThinking without easy answers\u003c\/strong\u003e – Take time with arguments that ask you to examine each step and its consequences.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of Plato’s Republic or Phaedo who want to see him question himself, and anyone curious about logic, being and unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and join Socrates as a promising answer meets its hardest questions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534587789660,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/03778_en_ebook-front_c20.jpg?v=1792174925","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/parmenides-de","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}