Parmenides and presocratic philosophy / John Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, John Anderson, 1965-

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Parmenides.

Eleatics.

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Physical Description:

xii, 428 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

Poem in Ancient Greek with English translation and notes.

Contents:

Parmenides' place in histories of presocratic philosophy. Historical narrative and Aristotle's influence; The development of early Greek philosophy in Guthrie's narrative; Advances in Parmenides interpretation and modifications of Guthrie's narrative; Fundamentals of the Ancient view of Parmenides; Prospectus for a modal reading of parmenides

Parmenides' three ways. Parmenides goes to the Halls of Night; 'The only ways of inquiry ...'; The Russellian Line; A modal interpretation of Parmenides' ways of inquiry

The way of the goddess and the way of mortals. Fragment 6: Instructions and admonition; Fragment 3: The availability of what is for understanding; Fragment 7: Further admonition; Parmenidean being

What must be and what is and is not. The way of conviction; The cosmology; The co-presence of what is and what is and is not

Zeno, Melissus, and Parmenides. Zeno and Parmenides; Melissus and Parmenides; Melissus as an Eristic

Anaxagoras and Parmenides. Anaxagoras and his physical theory; Anaxagoras and the principle of no becoming; Anaxagoras and Zeno; Anaxagoras and Parmenides: the true correspondence

Empedocles' element theory and Parmenides. Empedocles' cosmology; Parmenides' purported influence; Empedocles' roots as a plurality of Parmenidean beings'; Empedocles' cosmology and Parmenides' cosmology

Parmenides' Place in presocratic philosophy. Parmenides in retrospect; Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles; Parmenides and the Milesians; Parmenides and Heraclitus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199567904

0199567905

OCLC:

423583783