Parmenides, Melissus, Gorgias. A Reinterpretation of Eleatic Philosophy [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 14 (1):173-174 (1960)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

A patient attempt to get the philological detail of Parmenides' poem precise, by an author who has the virtue of recognizing the inseparability of philosophical considerations and philological technique. The conclusion is offered that the Eleatics were dualists almost in a Platonic sense, but with no causal connection between "being " and phenomena; thus there is no contradiction between the two parts of Parmenides' poem, and a strong historical affinity between Eleaticism and Plato's dualism. There is not quite enough precision nor imagination in the philosophical dimension proper to make this study entirely definitive; but it offers an interesting approach, with a suggestive outcome.--R. S. B.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,571

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Parmenides, Melissus and Gorgias. A Reinterpretation of Eleatic Philosophy.M. C. Scholar - 1965 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 3 (2):255-260.
Parmenides, Melissus, Gorgias.A. E. F. - 1962 - Review of Metaphysics 15 (3):526-526.
Parmenides, Melissus, Gorgias. [REVIEW]Felix M. Cleve - 1963 - New Scholasticism 37 (2):255-258.
Parmenides, Melissus, Gorgias.Johannes Hubertus Mathias Marie Loenen - 1959 - Assen, Netherlands,: Royal VanGorcum.
A Lesniewskian Reading of Ancient Ontology: Parmenides to Democritus.Paul Thom - 1986 - History and Philosophy of Logic 7 (2):155-166.
Eleatic Monism in Zeno and Melissus.Patricia Kenig Curd - 1993 - Ancient Philosophy 13 (1):1-22.
Melissus and Parmenides.John Palmer - 2004 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26:19-54.
How to Be an Eleatic Monist.Michael C. Rea - 2001 - Noûs 35 (s15):129-151.
Plato's reception of Parmenides.John Anderson Palmer - 1999 - New York: Oxford University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-01-22

Downloads
7 (#1,379,768)

6 months
2 (#1,192,610)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references