...This chapter focuses on the part of Plato's dialogue Parmenides where Cephalus recounts the dialogue. It relates how Cephalus' narration of how Antiphon told him that Pythodorus reported of the conversation between Parmenides, Zeno, and Socrates. It suggests that Socrates...

... philosopher Aristotle, who was both Plato’s most accomplished student and himself a teacher of Alexander the Great. His philosophical opponents on this issue were Parmenides and Zeno, who denied the reality of change—and thus denied the reality of time as well. Aristotle change Eleatics the India...

...According to Parmenides, there are two paths that offer themselves to the mind as candidate paths of inquiry, the path of what is and the path of what is not. This section sketches the global strategy Parmenides follows in establishing that the first path is the only viable path of inquiry...

... in (3) , which lacks modal force. But Parmenides is clearly committed to the modal addition for Path I. Can we, then, salvage Parmenides’ logical credentials by establishing the modal extension reading for the left-hand side of (1a*) ? Or must this, at least, remain as a logical blunder, namely...

... that Parmenides invokes in D3, when he claims that ‘all reality is a finite sphere’. The specific problem is whether Parmenides does, in fact, hold that ‘all reality is a sphere’. Both problems are solved by taking seriously the fact that the sphere is introduced as a metaphor only and so not to be taken...

... doxa opinion truth Xenophanes ensemblist identitarian logic logic logos xynos presumptuousness private thinking thinking Hegel G W F Heidegger M multiplicity non being Parmenides philosophy Empedocles essence ousia Plato Zeno of Elea Aristotle democracy judgment nomos physis...

...Chapter five focuses on one of the core motifs of Greek thought concerning death and the afterlife: the katabasis, or descent into the underworld. Benzi examines the deployment of this motif by the early Greek philosopher, Parmenides. Benzi sheds light on the famously obscure...

...The chapter focuses on how to read Parmenides, an ancient Greek, pre-Socratic thinker, in the twenty-first century. It is customary to read Parmenides in the context of ancient philosophy but not in the context of the contemporary philosophical debate. This book breaks with that practice in reading...

...Parmenides contrasts with Plato's other works in several ways. For example, Socrates is depicted as “very young perhaps fifteen or nineteen.” Parmenides questions Socrates, who contradicts himself; in other dialogues of question and answer, Socrates typically...

... through the texts of Parmenides and Hesiod. Yet Parmenides’ rejection of not-being allows the sophist to claim infallibility. Plato’s Eleatic Stranger shows that Parmenides’ rejection of not-being is self-refuting (thus the Stranger’s famous parricide is just as much Parmenides’ suicide). Further...

... philosophy of Parmenides) can be placed in the context of a larger historical development—modernism—which betrays many of the basic features of rhapsodic invention. Reflexive, experimental, agitative, and heterogeneous in its materials, the poetry of the modern avant-garde coincides with, and frequently...

...This chapter elaborates on an intuitive criterion much discussed by ancient Greek philosophers regarding the conditions under which an object can be said to change. Heraclitus and Parmenides both denied the possibility of change. Heraclitus believed that changes are constantly occurring...

... and Parmenides’s doctrine of nonbeing. The paradoxical pre Socratic origins of Protagoras’s thought create profound epistemic problems for Socrates. This is shown through his struggles with the epistemic consequences of three of Protagoras’s famous doctrines: the man-measure doctrine, the two-logoi doctrine...

... plurality having an implicit unity, (c) explicit unity having an implicit plurality, (d) pure unity. Parmenides ultimate Elements of Theology ad infinitum Greek philosophy This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...0 25 03 2004 Association or even assimilation of the thought of Parmenides and Melissus has 1ong been standard in histories of early Greek philosophy. While certain of the more apparent differences between their two systems have always been recognized, some scholars have found reasons...

...0 08 04 1999 Parmenides is, after Socrates, the philosopher who exercised the greatest influence on Plato’s thought. Parmenides arguably had an even more profound influence than Socrates on Plato’s overall metaphysical outlook, especially in the later stages of his career...

... these properties as they occur in Parmenides’ poem and demonstrate how they are attributed to the One-that-is in the Parmenides, however, I want instead to follow through certain arguments in the Second Deduction itself in order to show how it reflects Plato’s use of Parmenides. In discussing...

... that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living for humans’ (38A 5–6). Apology GreekPhilosophy Philosophy PhilosophicalQuarterly Translation Parmenides This content is only available as a PDF. ...

... that constitutes the natural title to rule (D.L. 7. 121-2), but they face none of his difficulties in explaining the sage’s motivation to take part in politics. Republi GreekPhilosophy Philosophy PhilosophicalQuarterly Translation Parmenides This content is only available as a PDF. ...

... of my book: that the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium are a sequentially ordered series that show the three stages of Socrates’ development in philosophy itself—that is, in what is now called epistemology and ontology. I show how this account of Socrates’ life is and must be different from the one...