Socrates
Parmenides
Recorded oral teaching
Parmenides
Παρμενίδης
A very young Socrates expounds the theory of Forms before the Eleatics Parmenides and Zeno, who subject it to devastating objections, among them the argument Aristotle would call the "third man". The second part is a long dialectical exercise on the one. It is the only dialogue in which Socrates appears as a defeated pupil.
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Authorship note
A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him. The conversation with Parmenides and Zeno is chronologically just possible and almost certainly fictional.
Editions and translations
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English
Socrates
Parmenides
The Conscious LibraryParmenides
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
Parménides o de las ideas (argumento y facsímil)
The Conscious LibraryParménides o de las ideas (argumento y facsímil)
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 4 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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