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Parmenides/Dial.qx[fin3] 6/20/07 12:17 PM Page i ■ ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PARMENIDES PUBLISHING ■ PRE-SOCRATICS By Being,It Is: The Thesis of Parmenidesby Néstor-Luis Cordero To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides.The Origins of Philosophy. Scholarly and fully annotated edition by Arnold Hermann The Illustrated To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides.The Origins of Philosophy. Over 200 full color illustrations. by Arnold Hermann The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought by Patricia Curd Parmenides and the History of Dialectic: Three Essays by Scott Austin The Route of Parmenides: A new edition, revised, with four additional essays by Alexander P. D. Mourelatos PLATO God and Forms in Platoby Richard D. Mohr Image and Paradigm in Plato’s Sophist by David Ambuel Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues by J. Angelo Corlett The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman by Mitchell Miller Plato’s Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved by Kenneth M. Sayre Plato’s Universe by Gregory Vlastos ARISTOTLE One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics—Volume 1: Books Alpha–Delta by Edward C. Halper One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics—Volume 2: The Central Books by Edward C. Halper ETHICS Sentience and Sensibility: A Conversation about Moral Philosophy by Matthew R. Silliman AUDIOBOOKS The Iliad (unabridged)by Stanley Lombardo The Odyssey (unabridged) by Stanley Lombardo The Essential Homer by Stanley Lombardo The Essential Iliad by Stanley Lombardo This page has been intentionally left blank. Parmenides/Dial.qx[fin3] 6/8/07 4:25 PM Page iii PARMENIDES and the History of Dialectic This page has been intentionally left blank. Parmenides/Dial.qx[fin3] 6/8/07 4:25 PM Page v PARMENIDES and the History of Dialectic: Three Essays SCOTT AUSTIN Parmenides/Dial.qx[fin3] 6/8/07 4:25 PM Page vi PARMENIDES PUBLISHING Las Vegas • Zurich • Athens © 2007 by Parmenides Publishing All rights reserved. Published 2007 Printed in the United States of America Designed by Neuwirth &Associates, Inc. ISBN-10: 1-930972-19-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-930972-19-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Austin, Scott, 1953- Parmenides and the history of dialectic : three essays / Scott Austin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-930972-19-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-930972-19-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Parmenides. 2. Dialectic. I. Title. B235.P24A96 2007 182'.3--dc22 2007017667 1-999-PARMENIDES www.parmenides.com Parmenides/Dial.qx[fin3] 6/8/07 4:25 PM Page vii CONTENTS Introduction ix Acknowledgements xiii ESSAY ONE Parmenidean Dialectic 1 ESSAY TWO Parmenidean Metaphysics 29 ESSAY THREE Parmenides and the History of Dialectic 51 Bibliography 85 Index 91 This page has been intentionally left blank. Parmenides/Dial.qx[fin3] 6/8/07 4:25 PM Page ix INTRODUCTION Perhaps one ought to apologize for offering a second study of Parmenides. But this is, I hope, the book I should have written the first time. It is, at least, shorter. And Parmenides himself is well worth returning to even twice in a lifetime, and perhaps at the expense of other activities in life. Or so, I hope, a sympathetic reader will agree. Much of what we think we owe to the Enlightenment or to the Academy is originally Eleatic, and it is possible that further rummaging around among those philosophers whom Nietzsche called “the most deeply buried of all Greek temples”1will inform us more about the sources of our own heritage. This study has as its broadest aim a rethinking of Parmenides’ effect on Plato, and has benefited from fine recent work by Coxon and Palmer.2 But, unlike these studies, whose primary aim is to find Plato reacting to Parmenides’ content, the present attempt is almost entirely about the form 1The Will to Power, aphorism 419 (translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale (London: Lowe & Brydone, Ltd., 1967)), p. 225. 2See A.H. Coxon, The Fragments of Parmenides(Assen: Van Gorcum, 1986), and The Philosophy of Forms (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1999) and also John R. Palmer, Plato’s Reception of Parmenides(Oxford, 1999). [IX]
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