Parmenide

Résumé

The "Parmenides" is often described as one of the most complex and problematic of the Platonic dialogues. In it a group of characters, including Parmenides, an eccentric teacher and poet from Elea, Zeno, the student and lover of Plato, and the young Socrates and Aristotle, engage in a series of conversations on some of the most abstract philosophical the nature of Forms, and the meaning of the One. Forms are the principles or sources of explanation of all the parts of the Whole in the earth, fire, man and even mortal qualities such as justice and prudence.