In order to know the thought of a philosopher the surest method is to read what he wrote. In the case of the Presocratics, however, a direct unmediated reading of the texts is almost impossible, because the vast majority of works of this period have disappeared. We propose the following methodological procedure concerning the Presocratics in general, and Parmenides in particular: Once a recovered citation (“fragment”) is confirmed as authentic, one must first attach oneself to it and try to pull from it the richest possible meaning. Only by this procedure can one understand the author on his own. The second step is to search for whether there are in a commentator some elements in accordance with the original text that are capable of...
The theory of forms put forward by the young Socrates in the first half of Plato's Parmenides is sub...
In this paper the author analyzes challenges for the Aristotles’ doctrine of the causes that were tr...
This paper discusses the fragment DK B6 of Parmenides' poem. The author defends the thesis that the ...
In order to know the thought of a philosopher the surest method is to read what he wrote. In the cas...
The history of philosophy proper, claimed Hegel, began with the poem of the Presocratic Greek philos...
The extraordinary overall textual situation of Parmenides’ B1,1-3, due to complex, variegate and pol...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1983The importance of Simplicius as source for the Presoc...
Destrée Pierre. The Fragments of Parmenides. A Critical Text with Introduction and Translation, the ...
Parmenides of Elea is the most important Pre-Socratic thinker. His philosophical poem in the fifth c...
This paper reconsiders the debates around the interpretation of Parmenides’ Being, in order to draw ...
The enigma of the thought of Parmenides continues to be the source of long-running disputes within t...
The treatment being submitted here for the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Stude...
Proclus, while interpreting the dialectical method of the Parmenides, makes the astonishing claim th...
The hermeneutical horizon of my work is provided by the extent of the discussion of the relationship...
Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of...
The theory of forms put forward by the young Socrates in the first half of Plato's Parmenides is sub...
In this paper the author analyzes challenges for the Aristotles’ doctrine of the causes that were tr...
This paper discusses the fragment DK B6 of Parmenides' poem. The author defends the thesis that the ...
In order to know the thought of a philosopher the surest method is to read what he wrote. In the cas...
The history of philosophy proper, claimed Hegel, began with the poem of the Presocratic Greek philos...
The extraordinary overall textual situation of Parmenides’ B1,1-3, due to complex, variegate and pol...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1983The importance of Simplicius as source for the Presoc...
Destrée Pierre. The Fragments of Parmenides. A Critical Text with Introduction and Translation, the ...
Parmenides of Elea is the most important Pre-Socratic thinker. His philosophical poem in the fifth c...
This paper reconsiders the debates around the interpretation of Parmenides’ Being, in order to draw ...
The enigma of the thought of Parmenides continues to be the source of long-running disputes within t...
The treatment being submitted here for the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Stude...
Proclus, while interpreting the dialectical method of the Parmenides, makes the astonishing claim th...
The hermeneutical horizon of my work is provided by the extent of the discussion of the relationship...
Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of...
The theory of forms put forward by the young Socrates in the first half of Plato's Parmenides is sub...
In this paper the author analyzes challenges for the Aristotles’ doctrine of the causes that were tr...
This paper discusses the fragment DK B6 of Parmenides' poem. The author defends the thesis that the ...