Plato Dialogue - Parmenides

The turn has come to read this dialogue, which is supposed to be one of the most essential of the Plato dialgoues.

It goes roughly like this - Socrates meets as a young man the older, more famous philosophers Zenon and Parmenides and starts talking roughly about sets. Aidemantos later recites the dialogue.

The Dialogue is about diversity and whether objects can be correctly sorted into classes. And whether something can be perceived as "one", that is single and not containing parts.

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Well, I think that if you got a fairly "humane" way of thinking instead of a logical one, this dialogue might be good and informative but most of all really BORING. Endless discussions whether something has a upside and downside or not. As a computer person, the question of instances and classes can be easily recognized in the discussions. If you are the kind of guy who likes to argue about things into the smallest detail you will love it, I suppose. It got the taste of analytical philosophy.