PLATO'S "PARMENIDES:" Critique of the Theory of Forms

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In this video, we discuss Plato’s dialogue, PARMENIDES. In this dialogue, Parmenides questions the young Socrates about his theory of Forms. These questions produce aporia, which is perplexity or literally “lacking passage” in Socrates if he gives specific wrong answers. One such question concerns “participation.” Socrates tells Parmenides that the many F-objects participate in the Form of the F itself (Parmenides 130e5-131a3). Parmenides then does to Socrates what Socrates does to his interlocutors in earlier dialogues: he makes him admit that his beliefs are inconsistent (130e5-131e7). In my presentation, I analyze and explain Parmenides's argument.