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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Parmenides"”.
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Simplicius as a source for and an interpreter of Parmenides
… systematic examination of his interpretation of Parmenides with a view to vindicating Simplicius as a serious interpreter of the Presocratics.All the passages in Simplicius relating to Parmenides have been collected and translated. They have further been grouped into the following sections: (I) …
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Authority claims in early Greek cosmologies: a study on Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles
The aim of this thesis is to examine the nature of the expertise which the first Greek cosmologists pursued, and the way in which they introduced a new area of knowledge. It is also investigates the way in which these early thinkers expressed their personal views, and the way in which they …
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The Problem of Separation (χωρισμός) and Participation (μέθεξις) in Plato’s Late Dialogues (Parmenides, Sophist, Timaeus) /
… objects, as well as to Plato’s dialogue Parmenides as the locus of a more thorough explication of the concepts in question. The dissertation then provides a thorough study of the Parmenides, showing that the problem of separation and participation has two main features. The first part of …
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Karl R. Popper lettore dei presocratici
… the use of the sources in the reconstruction of Parmenides' thought, identifying six recurring topics: 1. Parmenides' Goddess; 2. Elea's Moon; 3. The elenchos and the apparent anachronism; 4. The fragment B 16; 5. Eleatic verisimilitude; 6. Theme of blindness and the language issue. Chapter II …
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Deleuze and mereology: multiplicity, structure and composition
… to the notions of one, many, part and whole in Parmenides and Plato; (2) extracting conditions for a successful account of multiplicity and parthood;(3) surveying Deleuzian conceptions and uses of these notions; (4) appraising the extent to which Deleuze’s metaphysics can answer some of these …
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Porphyry, And the Platonic-Aristotelian Tradition
… fifth chapter, Porphyry`s commentary on Plato's Parmenides is reviewed in which we see the highest recurring moment of the unity of Platonism and Aristotelianism. And in the Addenda we present a discussion of some critical points which the latter work allegedly has in common with Proclus' version …
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The Ontology of Not-Being in Aristotle and His Predecessors
… put in contrast to his predecessors, especially Parmenides and Plato, whose ontologies are centered around either denying not-being any status or making it into a first principle.</p>
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In the Shadow of Anaximander: Philosophical Temperaments and Schopenhauerian Pessimism in Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
… to deal with the problem of Anaximander is Parmenides. While Heraclitus dealt with becoming by celebrating it, Parmenides denies it, reducing the world of perception to a mere illusion and inventing a second world of being where the horrors of becoming are absent. According to Nietzsche, …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… 1.2-3 in parallel with Plato's parricide of Parmenides (Sophist 242b6-5e5) and then compares the Physics' refutation with Aristotle's treatment of the Eleatics in Metaphysics A.3-5. It concludes that from this background Aristotle draws a necessary requirement for his own metaphysical …
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All of a Sudden: The Role of Ἐξαίφνης in Plato's Dialogues
… in Symposium. Commonly translated in the Parmenides as "the instant, " ἐξαίφνης also surfaces in a crucial section of the dialogue's training exercise. This dissertation demonstrates the connection obtaining between the thirty-six scattered appearances of ἐξαίφνης in order to reveal the …
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Palimpsest
… knowledge ; Elysium in Kansas ; Dry plateau ; To Parmenides -- Second prelude. Red moon rising ; The rose ; Chameleon ; Dry spell ; Woman at the window ; Psyche in the light ; Apotheosis ; A poem about God, sex, and nuclear disarmament ; A song for the stoic ; Winter dawn on the Gulf ; Gypsy flats …
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Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
… an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides reveals that Difference is to be identified with the Timaeus’ third ontological principle, namely the Receptacle. Being thought of as space or matter, the Receptacle thus emerges as the quasi-material component that provides each …
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On the sketch: the making of an ideal library
… ...for it is the same, to think as it is to be. Parmenides, fragment 3 These pages are a presentation of an architectural activity. It is the activity of the architectural sketch. By architectural sketch, I mean free hand drawing. Primarily, this is a presentation of the sketch as a generator of …
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
… solve the problem of non-being. Taking Plato's Parmenides and Sophist as points of departure, I show how each of the above mentioned thinkers, including Aristotle, fails to meet Plato's criteria for, i.e. solve, the problem of non-being. I then use contemporary memory research for the sake of …
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The nature and purpose of relative terms in Plato
… of conjunctivism. Looking at Sophist 255c–d and Parmenides 133c–134e, I discuss the taxonomy of relative terms. I show that, under the conjunctive reading, they form a distinguishable class and, in contrast to Owenian relatives, each reciprocates with its correlative. So, just as a parent is …
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