Dear Master,
Thirty five years ago, in April 1980 the Master of Balliol,
Dr Anthony Kenny, gave a lecture on Aristotle in my Philosophy seminar in
Prague. To commemorate this anniversary, I should like to present a lecture on
‘Plato’s Parmenides in the light of
Aristotle’s testimony’ at Balliol.
My views on this dialogue differ from the accepted views. I
should therefore greatly appreciate it if a specialist on Plato’s philosophy
would chair the lecture and open it with an explanation of the currently
accepted views. The interpretation of Plato’s philosophy in its entirety
depends on the interpretation of this dialogue; I hope that Oxford classical
philosophers will use the occasion to vigorously defend the accepted views in
discussion following the lecture. My views on the dialogue are available to the
public in my Blog. I have devoted to it nine entries, beginning with the entry of October 16, 2014
‘A note on the 3rd book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics’; so far the last is the entry of February 6, 2015
‘Aristotle’s response to Plato’s Parmenides
in Metaphysics M’.
I hope you will accept my proposal and I look forward to
hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Julius Tomin
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