Parmenides
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892
First written c. 370 BCE
In the public domain
About this text
Jowett’s translation of the Parmenides, in which the aged Parmenides presses the young Socrates with objections to the Forms, then works through a series of hypotheses about the One, which the Neoplatonists read as a theology of the One beyond being.
How to cite
Plato. Parmenides: In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892.
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