Parmenides and after: Unity and Plurality

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 34-55

  Curd, Patricia ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic principles, fragments of Aristotle's On Democritus; Parmenides and after, the unity and plurality; Parmenides rejection of change, of what it means for something to be real, or genuinely to be; Parmenides' claims about what is and his monism; Parmenides' importance for Greek philosophy; Parmenides' inquiry, accounting for the nature or reality of things; Parmenides' writings, the AlEtheia ("Truth") and the Doxa ("Opinion"); Parmenides, and the what is "changeless.bonds," into later Greek thought; Questions of unity and plurality, in pre Socratic thought; The cosmos, knowing the real nature of each thing and being able to say how it is

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EID: 84855505157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305845.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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