Difficulty and beauty in a parricide that did not happen (Plato, Sophist, 236e-237a)
Keywords:
Plato, Parmenides, Sophist, non-beingAbstract
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the Eleatic Stranger, a character in the Sophist, and the philosopher Parmenides of Elea, who is called “father” by the Stranger. The focus of this analysis is the refutation, or the “parricide”, of the latter at the hands of the former. The refutation concerns the attribution, by the Stranger, of a certain reality to non-being -- something which the master of Elea had wholly rejected. Our study aims to defend the idea of the non-existence of that refutation, or parricide, of the philosopher of Elea by his disciple
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