Parmenides and the origin of metaphysics / Matthew Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parmenides. Nature.

Parmenides.

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Ancient.

metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics' offers a novel and comprehensive solution to one of the oldest interpretive puzzles in the history of ancient Greek philosophy: the so-called 'problem of the Doxa.' This puzzle arises out of an apparent conflict between the main part of Parmenides' poem, called "the Aletheia," and the cosmological part, called 'the Doxa.' Whereas in the Aletheia he seems to argue that nothing is generated, divided, or changing, in the Doxa he seems to presuppose that lots of things are. Over the last century, the standard solution to this puzzle has been to marginalize the Doxa, and hold that, according to Parmenides, the theory presented there is logically or rationally incoherent. Matthew Evans defends an alternative solution: the two parts of the poem are not at odds with each other, because each of them is about a distinct kind of thing.

Contents:

The problem of the doxa

Starting points

Moving forward

Looking back

Mortal error

Wanderers

The possibility of cosmology

How to know

Back to the beginning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed April 24, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Evans, Matthew. Parmenides and the origin of metaphysics.

ISBN:

9780197834916

0197834914

OCLC:

1582165186

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