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In By Being, It Is, Nestor-Luis Cordero explores the richness of this Parmenidean thesis, which became the cornerstone of philosophy. Cordero''s textual analysis of the poem''s fragments reveals that Parmenides'' intention was highly didactic. His poem applied, for the first time, an explicative method that deduced consequences from a true axiom: by being, it is. To ignore this reality meant to be a victim of opinions. This volume explains how without this conceptual base, all later ontology would have been impossible. This book offers a clear and concise introduction to the Parmenidean doctrine and helps the reader appreciate the imperative value of Parmenides''s claim that "e;by being, it is."e;
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter I: Introduction to Parmenides
- Chapter II: Prolegomena to Parmenidesā Thesis
- Chapter III: Parmenidesā Thesis and Its Negation
- Chapter IV: The Meaning of Parmenidesā Thesis (and of Its Negation)
- Chapter V: Parmenidesā Thesis, Thinking, and Speaking
- Chapter VI: Presentation of the Thesis and Its Negation in Fragments 6 and 7
- Chapter VII: The Negation of the Thesis, āOpinions,ā and the Nonexistent Third Way
- Chapter VIII: The Meaning of the āOpinions of Mortalsā
- Chapter IX: The Foundation of the Thesis: The Way of Truth
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Parmenidesā Poem
- Appendix 2: Note on the Transliteration of the Greek Alphabet
- Bibliography