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Parmenides and the History of Dialectic: Three Essays
Scott Austin
Parmenides Publishing, 2007
"Parmenides and the History of Dialectic" is a study of Greek philosophical method as it affects contemporary philosophical issues. What was distinctive about the method of Parmenides, the inventor of philosophical argument as we know it? How did Parmenides' method affect Plato's dialectic, which was supposed to provide the solution to all ...
Plato's Universe
Gregory Vlastos
Parmenides Publishing, 2005
Gregory Vlastos' Plato's Universe
The comments I'm about to make come from p.xiv of the Introduction of the book:"Recalling that many important things have come to us from the Greeks--democracy, tragedy, the Olympic Games, mathematics, logic, philosophy--Vlastos wonders... if the Greeks really ...
A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus
David Konstan
Parmenides Publishing, 2008
Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death. What is more, they believed that a clear understanding of the nature of the world would help to eliminate this fear; for if we recognize that the universe and everything in it is made up of atoms and empty space, we will ...
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: The Central Books
Edward C. Halper
Parmenides Publishing, 2005
What is The Meaning Of Being?
I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Topic of Metaphysics is Ousia=substance and being. What is the meaning of being? With respect to matter and form, it is primarily about form. Analytically both can be separate and distinct, but not in reality. ...
God and Forms in Plato
Richard D. Mohr
Parmenides Publishing, 2005
Richard D. Mohr's God and Forms in Plato
This book is a revised and expanded editon of a 1985 book The Platonic Cosmology by the same author. As explained on p.ix of the preface to the 2005 edition, the author attempts to "place Plato's cosmological commitments in the Timaeus, Statesman, and Philebus into a ...
The Route of Parmenides: A New Revised Edition with a New Introduction, Three Additional Essays and a ...
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
Parmenides Publishing, 2008
This study of the fragments of Parmenides' poem, "On Nature" (early 5th century b.c.e.), combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek ...
Sentience and Sensibility: A Conversation about Moral Philosophy
Matthew R. Silliman
Parmenides Publishing, 2006
A thought-provoking examination of fundamental philosophical morality
Written by philosophy professor Matthew R. Silliman, Sentience and Sensibility: A Conversation About Moral Philosophy is a treatise written in the venerable format of philosophical dialogue between individuals, in which characters actively challenge each other to ...
The Illustrated To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides, The Origins of Philosophy
Arnold Hermann
Parmenides Publishing, 2004
2005 Writers Notes Book Award Winner
Hermann illuminates lesser-known Greek figure Parmenides in this carefully constructed treatise on the early years of philosophy. Beginning with his more famous contemporary, Pythagoras, the book delves into the curious sides of Pythagoreanism, exposing the ...
Black Market Truth: The Aristotle Quest, Book 1: A Dana McCarter Trilogy (Aristotle Quest: A Dana McCarter ...
Sharon Kaye
Parmenides Publishing, 2008
A Must Read for Everyone!
I absolutely loved this book! Once I started reading it, I could not put it down! I thought I might be a bit overwhelmed due to the philosophy involved but that was absolutely not the case and I found myself looking forward to the sections that explained Aristotle's ...
Pythagorean Crimes
Tefcros Michaelides
Parmenides Publishing, 2008
Athens, 1929. Stefanos Kantartzis is found murdered, and Michael Igerinos, his best friend of 30 years, is being questioned by the police as the last person to see him alive. While looking at his dead friend?s body, Michael is immediately taken back to the late summer of 1900 when he and Stefanos first met in the crammed Sorbonne University ...
The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman
Mitchell Miller
Parmenides Publishing, 2004
In the Statesman , Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reprinted here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying ...
The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought
Patricia Curd
Parmenides Publishing, 2004
Fantastic book - does not rate a one review
This book doesn't rate a one. For contrast, do check out the highly positive review on Bryn Mawr's site http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-06-05.html I can't really add anything better to their review, but I'll identify a few points that grabbed my ...
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books Alpha-Delta: Books Alpha-Delta
Edward C. Halper
Parmenides Publishing, 2008
"One and Many" in Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books, "Alpha to Delta" is sequentially the first volume of a three volume set, the second of which was first published by Ohio State University Press in 1989 and was reprinted with revisions by Parmenides Publishing in 2005. The final volume, "Lota to Nu", is scheduled for release in 2009. Most ...
Interpreting Plato's Dialogues
J. Angelo Corlett
Parmenides Publishing, 2005
"Interpreting Plato's Dialogues" introduces readers to some key problems in understanding Plato's writings, and explores in-depth and critically the various ways of approaching Plato. The problem of how to interpret Plato's dialogues dates back to Plato's Academy, and Plato's interpreters ought not to forego this important discussion. For how one ...
To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides, The Origins of Philosophy
Arnold Hermann
Parmenides Publishing, 2004
2005 Writers Notes Book Award Winner
Hermann illuminates lesser-known Greek figure Parmenides in this carefully constructed treatise on the early years of philosophy. Beginning with his more famous contemporary, Pythagoras, the book delves into the curious sides of Pythagoreanism, exposing the ...
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