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New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics.
Inquiring into Being is a study of Parmenides, the early Greek pre-Socratic philosopher often credited as the first metaphysician and whose sole written work was a philosophical poem. In his poem, Parmenides has a narrating goddess character indicate the sense of being that must be and cannot be as a corrective to the errors mortals make when accounting for the ultimate nature of reality while showing a keen scientific understanding of natural phenomena. Inquiring into Being brings together and further develops recent work on Parmenides and the surviving fragments of his text through twelve chapters by scholars from the United States and United Kingdom working in analytic and continental philosophy, classics, political theory, literary theory, and the history of science. It serves as a guide through many of the interpretive controversies in Parmenides's poem while offering new insights into Parmenides's role as poet, scientist, natural philosopher, and investigator into the nature of being.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Proem
1. Unifying the Poem: A Divine-Modal Reading
Jeremy C. DeLong
2. Parmenides's Poem as Initiation
Mary Cunningham
3. Olympus as Hades: Plato and the Homeric Parmenides
Alex Priou
Section II: Truth
4. Parmenides's Fragment 2 and the Meaning of Einai
Colin C. Smith
5. The Veridicality of Noein and the Particularity of Noos in Parmenides's Poem and the Continuity Between Parmenides's, Homer's, and Hesiod's Usages
Paul DiRado
6. Noein and Einai in the Poem of Parmenides
Michael Wiitala
7. How Many Roads?
Matthew Evans
8. Revelation and Rationality in Parmenides's Fragment
Jenny Bryan
9. Signposts for the Study of Nature: Parmenides's Fragment 8
Eric Sanday
Section III: Doxa
10. Parmenides's Doxa and the Norms of Inquiry: A Case Study of the Fragments on Astronomy
Sosseh Assaturian
11. The Essential Role of the Doxa in Parmenides's Teaching
Jessica Elbert Decker
12. Fragment 18 Revisited
Joseph B. Zehner Jr.
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index
Index Locorum