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.
Edited by:
Colin C. Smith (Ohio State University)
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9798855801347
Series: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Colin C. Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University.
Reviews for Inquiring into Being: Essays on Parmenides
"""This book presents a variety of diverse, new interpretations of Parmenides's poem, some of which are destined to become classics."" — Thomas M. Tuozzo, author of Plato's Charmides: Positive Elenchus in a ""Socratic"" Dialogue"
