Parmenides and presocratic philosophy
By: John Palmer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780199567904
Subjects: Parmenides; Eleatics; Pre-Socratic philosophers
Description: Parmenides of Elea is generally considered the most profound and challenging of the pre-Socratic philosophers. John Palmer develops and defends a fundamentally original interpretation of Parmenides and his place in early Greek thought. An appendix presents a Greek text of the fragments of Parmenides' poem with English translation and notes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-404)and indexes.

Poem in Ancient Greek with English translation and notes.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Zeno, Melissus, and Parmenides: Zeno and Parmenides ; Melissus and Parmenides ; Melissus as an Eristic; title: Anaxagoras and Parmenides: Anaxagoras and his physical theory ; Anaxagoras and the principle of no becoming ; Anaxagoras and Zeno ; Anaxagoras and Parmenides: the true correspondence; title: Empedocles' element theory and Parmenides: Empedocles' cosmology ; Parmenides' purported influence ; Empedocles' roots as a 'plurality of Parmenidean beings' ; Empedocles' cosmology and Parmenides' cosmology; title: Parmenides' place in presocratic philosophy: Parmenides in retrospect ; Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles ; Parmenides and the Milesians ; Parmenides and Heraclitus; title: Appendix: The fragments of Parmenides' poem.