"Parmenides" - читать интересную книгу автора (Plato)

370 BC

PARMENIDES

by Plato

translated by Benjamin Jowett

PARMENIDES



PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: CEPHALUS; ADEIMANTUS; GLAUCON; ANTIPHON;

PYTHODORUS; SOCRATES; ZENO; PARMENIDES; ARISTOTELES. Cephalus

rehearses a dialogue which is supposed to have been narrated in his

presence by Antiphon, the half-brother of Adeimantus and Glaucon, to

certain Clazomenians.



We had come from our home at Clazomenae to Athens, and met

Adeimantus and Glaucon in the Agora. Welcome, Cephalus, said

Adeimantus, taking me by the hand; is there anything which we can do

for you in Athens?

Yes; that is why I am here; I wish to ask a favour of you.

What may that be? he said.

I want you to tell me the name of your half brother, which I have

forgotten; he was a mere child when I last came hither from

Clazomenae, but that was a long time ago; his father's name, if I

remember rightly, was Pyrilampes?

Yes, he said, and the name of our brother, Antiphon; but why do

you ask?

Let me introduce some countrymen of mine, I said; they are lovers of