/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11692272]

>parmenides
Why did Plato write this? It does a good job bringing up the flaws with forms but that second half talked in circles.

[Anonymous No.11692408]

>>11692272
It's a kind of elaboration on what Socrates says in the Phaedo about his second sailing, i.e., the investigation of the beings through opinions and logos. The first half shows problems with the forms, yes, but Socrates is still depicted as talking about them at the end of life (He calls them "much babbled about" in the Phaedo). The thing to keep an eye out for is what are we to take as different about how Socrates treats of them in the first half of the dialogue, and how he treats of them elsewhere. Does he in fact learn not to hold on too tightly to people's opinions and hypothesize forms of hair, dirt, and mud? Does he later come to be not so shocked if the hypotheses demonstrate that Gods can't know anything outside their perfect realm? Is he less baffled by the idea that the forms might mix strangely?

[Anonymous No.11692415]

should have started with the greeks