Download or read book Plato’s Parmenides Reconsidered written by M. Tabak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Parmenides Reconsidered offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account of Plato's Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose the absurd nature of the doctrines and method of his philosophical opponents.