What was distinctive about the method of Parmenides, the inventor of philosophical argument as we know it? How did Parmenides' method affect Plato's dialectic, which was supposed to provide the solution to all ultimate philosophical problems? This title offers a study of Greek philosophical method as it affects contemporary philosophical issues.
A study of the form of Parmenides? argument in relation to the form of Plato's dialogue ?The Parmenides? and to the form of subsequent dialectic in the Western tradition.
