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Luc Brisson is a researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the International Plato Society, and has published several books and articles on the history of philosophy and religion in Antiquity. For many years Brisson is at the helm of the CNRS publication Plato Bibliography, with the assistance of Michael Chase and Frédéric Plin (CNRS Paris). He has directed a translation of Plato’s Complete Works (published in one volume in 2008), and a translation of the Enneads, the last volume of which was published in 2010 (with J. F. Pradeau).

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Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris , The Centre Jean Pépin

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The Ontology of Parmenides According to Plato’s Parmenides

Luc Brisson

ORGANON, Volume 56, 2024, pp. 53 - 64

https://doi.org/10.4467/00786500.ORG.24.005.20207

For Proclus, the subject of Parmenides’ hypothesis is the One and the verb to be has an existential meaning. Modern commentators acknowledge the existential function of the verb, but propose different subjects. I try to explain why I give a predicative function to the verb to be, giving the world as its subject, one being the predicate.

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Luc Brisson

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris ( France), The Centre Jean Pépin

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