THE ELEATIC ELEMENTS IN THE METAPHYSICAL REFLECTION AND IN THE PHYSICAL MENTIONS OF THE PARMENIDES
THE ELEATIC ELEMENTS IN THE METAPHYSICAL REFLECTION AND IN THE PHYSICAL MENTIONS OF THE PARMENIDES

Summary/Abstract: In the Parmenides, it is possible to identifyaffirmations that are clearly of Eleatic origin andwhich are re-elaborated by Plato who includes them adhoc when developing his arguments. The dialecticalcontribution on the question of the multiplicity of enti-ties given to the Parmenidean philosophy by Zeno isdiscussed not only in the first part of the dialogue (see127d–128d) but also in the second. In the latter, Par-menides adopts an ontological-metaphysical settingthrough which Plato gives an example of the varioususes of Zenonian dialectic. Here all the hypothesesconcerning the One are analysed (see 136a–c).

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