Parmenides, Plato, and mortal philosophy : return from transcendence
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Parmenides, Plato, and mortal philosophy : return from transcendence
（Continuum studies in ancient philosophy）
Continuum, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-203) and index
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In a new interpretation of Parmenides philosophical poem On Nature, Vishwa Adluri considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals. Adluri argues that the tripartite division of Parmenides poem allows the thinker to brilliantly hold together the paradox of speaking about being in time and articulates a tragic knowing: mortals may aspire to the transcendence of metaphysics, but are inescapably returned to their mortal condition.Parmenides.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Parmenides and Renewing the Beginning
- Part I: Beginnings - Arkhai
- 1. Radical Individuality: Time, Mortal Soul and Journey
- 2. Parmenides and his Importance as a Beginner
- Part II: Parmenides
- 3. The Mortal Journey: Thumos (The Mortal Soul) and Its Limits
- 4. In the Realm of the Goddess: Logos and its Limits
- 5. At Home in the Kosmos: The Return
- Part III: Plato the Pre-Socratic
- 6. Reading Plato's Phaedrus: Socrates the Mortal
- Part IV: Forewording
- 7. Conclusion - Returning to Parmenides
- Part V: Translation of Parmenides' Peri Phuseos with Textual Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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