A Study of the Process Approach in Plato's Thoughts

The present paper tries to review the two types of process approaches in Plato's method of theorizing. As a reading of Socrates and Parmenides debate, the first type of this approach is an attempt to show how the dialectical application of Socrates, which is observed in Plato's works, is manifested in the definition of ideas and their relationship to tangible objects. At each stage after the birth of the thesis, the strengths and weaknesses of the thesis are examined, the relevant synthesis is formed and the debate proceeds accordingly. The power of thought, reasoning, creativity, and discerning contradictions used in this debate, which gives rise to the debate and intensifies it, as well as the hidden direction that drives the debate within its framework can be seen as a process which in Plato's method (influenced by the teachings of Socrates) manifests itself for extracting truth from the human mind. Known today as process philosophy, another process approach of similar kind can be seen in Plato's works, especially in the way he views the issue of good, which seems to have not been addressed by thinkers throughout the history of philosophy.