Inquiring into Being : Essays on Parmenides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Colin C.

Series:

SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parmenides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I Proems

Chapter 1 Unifying the Poem: A Divine-Modal Reading

Chapter 2 Parmenides’s Poem as Initiation

Chapter 3 Olympus as Hades

Section II Truth

Chapter 4 Parmenides’s Fragment 2 and the Meaning of Einai

Chapter 5 The Veridicality of Noein and the Particularity of Noos in Parmenides’s Poem and the Continuity Between Parmenides’s, Homer’s, and Hesiod’s Usages

Chapter 6 Noein and Einai in the Poem of Parmenides

Chapter 7 How Many Roads?

Chapter 8 Revelation and Rationality in Parmenides’s Fragment 7

Chapter 9 Signposts for the Study of Nature Parmenides’s Fragment 8

Section III Doxa

Chapter 10 Parmenides’s Doxa and the Norms of Inquiry

Chapter 11 The Essential Role of the Doxa in Parmenides’s Teaching

Chapter 12 Fragment 18 Revisited

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Index Locorum

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-558-0135-4

OCLC:

1503846153