Abstract
The objective of this contribution is a brief study of the characteristics of the interlocutors of Plato’s Parmenides, with particular attention paid to aspects concerning the age and attitude of the younger characters towards philosophy. On the one hand the article aims to demonstrate how Plato in the Parmenides puts on stage a protreptic philosophy, by emphasising how a group of young people involved in the discussion between Zeno, Socrates, and Parmenides represented in the dialogue react (or reacted) to it. On the other hand the article proposes useful elements for a questioning of Parmenides’ role in the dialogue: many interpreters read in this the acknowledgement of Plato’s debt to Eleatism. A careful reading of the characterisation of Parmenides as old master, and a cursory analysis of the second part of the text reveal neveretheless that Plato’s attitude towards Eleatism is not entirely positive, and indeed is even deliberately ambiguous.
Ringraziamenti
Questo contributo è la versione rivista di una comunicazione presentata in occasione del secondo incontro della Sezione Mediterranea dell’International Plato Society, tenutosi a Coimbra dal 14 al 16 giugno 2012. Sono profondamente grato ai Proff. Francesco Fronterotta, Maria do Céu Fialho e Maurizio Migliori per le domande e le critiche rivoltemi in occasione del convegno. Ringrazio inoltre gli editori di Philologus per le produttive critiche che mi hanno permesso di rendere l’argomentazione più chiara e dettagliata. Dove non altrimenti indicato, le traduzioni dal greco sono mie.
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