Parmenides and presocratic philosophy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Palmer, John Anderson, 1965-
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford [England] ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=aa88b20c2ca240f4b4286df482a0d9d0
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 428 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [388]-404)and indexes.
ISBN: 9780191571893
9780199567904
Index Number: B235
CLC: B502.152
Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Zeno, Melissus, and Parmenides: Zeno and Parmenides ; Melissus and Parmenides ; Melissus as an Eristic -- Anaxagoras and Parmenides: Anaxagoras and his physical theory ; Anaxagoras and the principle of no becoming ; Anaxagoras and Zeno ; Anaxagoras and Parmenides: the true correspondence -- Empedocles' element theory and Parmenides: Empedocles' cosmology ; Parmenides' purported influence ; Empedocles' roots as a 'plurality of Parmenidean beings' ; Empedocles' cosmology and Parmenides' cosmology -- Parmenides' place in presocratic philosophy: Parmenides in retrospect ; Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles ; Parmenides and the Milesians ; Parmenides and Heraclitus -- Appendix: The fragments of Parmenides' poem.