enduring significance of Parmenides
Subtitle: unthinkable thought
By: Raymond Tallis.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826499523
Subjects: Parmenides
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The once and future philosopher; title: The strange dawn of western thought; title: The central thoughts; title: The unthinkability of Parmenides' thought; title: Parmenides' multiple legacy; title: The significance of Parmenides : preliminary observations; title: The existence of what-is-not; title: Surely not is not?; title: A historical excursus : Russell, Strawson and reference to non-existent objects; title: The origin of what-is-not : possibility; title: Some further thoughts on being, thinking, existence and possibility; title: Propositional awareness encounters itself; title: The nature of propositional awareness; title: The self-encounter of propositional awareness; title: Thought and stasis; title: Reflections on matter; title: Why Parmenides happened; title: The greatest presocratic; title: The presocratic cognitive revolution; title: The rise of the city as polis; title: The city : cognitive density; title: Trade, colonisation and the obligation to make one's self clear; title: Writing : storing human consciousness outside of the human body; title: Parmenides' footnotes : Plato and Aristotle; title: The passage from presocratic to postsocratic thought; title: Plato's wrong turn; title: Aristotle's wrong turn; title: The problem of the generality of propositional awareness; title: Parmenides today; title: Taking Parmenides seriously; title: A debit register; title: Thoughts about the unthinkability of thought; title: Thinking, knowing, and being; title: The Parmenidean challenge.