On some difficult interpretation issues about Parmenides’ Poem

Authors

  • José Lourenço Pereira da Silva Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Keywords:

Parmenides, Pre-Socratics, being

Abstract

Parmenides of Elea is the most important Pre-Socratic thinker. His philosophical poem in the fifth century BCE marks a turning-point in the history of rational investigation. The extant verses, a matter of extensive debate among scholars of Ancient Philosophy, present problems for the interpretation of Parmenides’ thought. By focusing upon his ‘way of Truth’, I suggest an interpretation of Parmenides’ lessons about being. I examine three crucial problems widely treated in the Parmenides scholarship: (i) his relation to other philosophers of his time, (ii) the subject of the verb to be in his poem, and (iii) the meaning of this verb in Fragment 2.

Author Biography

José Lourenço Pereira da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Doutor em Filosofia pela UNICAMP. Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Filosofia da UFSM.Área de pesquisa em Filosofia Antiga.

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Published

2014-02-23

Issue

No. 32 (2014): Studies on Ethics

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