How Socrates and Parmenides met? -The story goes that a young Socrates met an older Parmenides and his student Zeno, when they visited Athens. Almost immediately, they got to talking about Parmenides’s ideas on Being, with Parmenides asserting the unity of Being, while Zeno denied its plurality. The young Socrates, instead, asserted both absolute Ideas and sensible things that take part in those Ideas. Parmenides pokes many holes in the Platonic concept, but he still seems fond of it and of the young man.
