'Is the world one?' A new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Volumn 22, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-19

  Brisson, Luc ^a  

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1. F. W. Niewöhncr, Dialog und Dialektik in Platons Parmenides: Untersuchungen zur sogenannten Plato-Esoterik (Monographien zur philosophischen Forschung, 78; Meisenheim am Glan, 1971), counts 17 interpretations of the dialogue. There have been more since then.
2. On the history of the exegesis of Plato's Parmenides in antiquity according to Proclus, see Proclus, Théologie platonicienne, texte établi et traduit par H. D. Saffrey et L. G. Westerink, i (Paris, 1968), lxxv-lxxxix.
3. Their writings can therefore be understood as writings On Nature, a generic title that appears only later; cf. on this subject E. Schmalzriedt, Peri phuseos: Zur Frühgeschichte der Buchtitel (Munich, 1970).
4. Cf. L. Brisson, 'Les réponses du jeune Aristote dans la scconde partie du Parménide de Platon', Revue, informatique et statistique dans les sciences humaines, 20/1-4(1984), 59-79.
5. This discussion relies, to a large extent, on Gregory Vlastos' article 'Plato's Testimony concerning Zeno of Elea', Journal 0f Hellenic Studies, 95 (1975), 136-61,
6. repr. in his Studies in Greek Philosophy, i, ed. D. W. Graham (Princeton, 1994), 264-300;
7. and also on M. Caveing, Zénon d'Elée: Prolé goménes aux doctrines du continu. Etude historique et critique des fragments et témoignages [Zénon d'Élée] (Histoire des doctrines de l'Antiquité Classique, 7; Paris, 1982).
8. As does G. Casertano, 'Qualche osservazioni sulla prima ipotesi del Parmenide', in Ethos e cultura: Studi in onore di Ezio Rhidato (Padua, 1991), 91-101.
9. This interpretation was argued more than forty years ago by M. Untersteiner, Parmenide. Testimonianze e frammenti, a cura di Mario Untersteiner (Biblioteca di Studi Superiori, 38; Florence, 1958).
10. Caveing ( Zénon d'Elée, 149-54) agrees with Vlastos on this point.
11. In this section, I follow R. E. Allen's line of reasoning (in Plato's Parmenides (Oxford, 1983)) quite closely, without adhering to the basic argument; there are numerous and important differences between our positions.
12. Contrary to the view of G. Ryle, in 'Plato's Parmenides' (1939),
13. Studies in Plato's Metaphysics, ed. R. E. Allen (London, 1965), 97-147.
14. On this point see J. A. Palmer, Plato's Reception of Parmenides (Oxford, 1999).
15. See N. Loraux, 'Thucydide n'est pas un collègue', Quaderni di storia, 12 (1980), 55-81.