[MD] Plato's Good

[X Acto]

Ron (X Acto) stated May 12th:

The Doctrine of ideas/theory of forms is essentially a Parmenidian tradition.

 
Ant McWatt comments:

Parmenides' work only survives as fragments (largely as a partially constructed poem titled
as “On Nature”).  I’m just wondering what (text/s) led you to that conclusion Ron?

 

Ron replies:
Plato certainly, and Nietzche's Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks for the most part.
They really give the credit to Parmenides which then they attribute to earlier  philosophers
as a tradition built apon. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but I'll look it and type quotes
if you wish. I can only point to where others have written about him and give him credit
for the ideas, like you say, little survives of the actual work so first hand criticism of what
Parmenides actually did is out of the question. Obviously.
 
I think it was in "Parmenides" -Plato where Socrates asks Parmenides to explain the doctrine of forms
to him again because Socrates was having difficulty grasping what Parmenides was getting at.
Zeno was part of the conversation. They talk about what makes "the One" immovable and eternal.
 
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