Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome

Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome
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Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9781930972629
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Download or read book Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome written by Nestor Luis Cordero and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Parmenides' tremendous importance during his own lifetime and his perennial influence on philosophical thought ever since, the great Eleatic-born ca. 515 BCE and described by Plato as "e;Venerable and Awesome"e; (Theaetetus, 183e)-had never been the subject of an international conference until 2007, when some of the world's most eminent specialists on Parmenides' philosophy convened for a multinational and multilingual Symposium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The present volume offers a collection of the papers (translated, where applicable) presented at the conference, each advancing the respective scholar's current state of research on Parmenides and his Poem, "e;On Nature,"e; often with far-reaching and sometimes controversial results.


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