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Parmenides platon5/22/2023 Employing his customary method of attack, the reductio ad absurdum, Zeno has argued that if as the pluralists say things are many, then they will be both like and unlike but this is an impossible situation, for unlike things cannot be like, nor like things unlike. The heart of the dialogue opens with a challenge by Socrates to the elder and revered Parmenides and Zeno. Most scholars agree that the dialogue does not record historic conversations, and is most likely an invention by Plato. It is also notable that he takes the position of the student here while Parmenides serves as the lecturer. This dialogue is chronologically the earliest of all as Socrates is only nineteen years old here. The dialogue is set during a supposed meeting between Parmenides and Zeno of Elea in Socrates' hometown of Athens. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides' supposition that there is a one gives rise to intolerable absurdities and contradictions. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. Parmenides ( Greek: Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511)
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