| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preliminary Remarks -- Setting-Background -- Life of Parmenides -- Literary Character -- Greek text and translation -- Fragment 1 -- Importance of the First Fragment -- Controversy over the Images -- Path of Delusion -- Overview of Fragment 1 -- Manuscript Tradition of Fragment 1 -- Fragment 1 Text and Commentary -- Conspectus of Imagery -- Fragments 2-19 Text and Commentary -- Epilogue -- Translation with interlinear Greek text -- Word-list |
| Summary |
This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called "the Truth," by turning to a life of meditation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 4, 2016) |
| Subject |
Parmenides. Nature -- Criticism, Textual
|
| SUBJECT |
Nature (Parmenides) fast |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Poetry
|
|
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
|
|
Philosophy
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
Poetry
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780761867432 |
|
0761867430 |
|
