Plato's Parmenides?

[jrmu <jrmu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I just started listening to Parmenides in depth, about 70% through.  My
honest opinion is this is one of the worst books I have ever read in my
life. I am amazed at how much rubbish Plato writes about.

He spent an hour talking about an Idea which we don't have any evidence
exists, then concludes that it cannot exist because it is timeless, then
compares it to circles and lines and squares. It is almost comically
absurd.

Can anyone defend Plato's book? Is this the man Whitehead wrote about,
when he said all western philosophy is a series of footnotes on Plato?

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Aaron Lin
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