By Being, It Is : The Thesis of Parmenides

by: Cordero, N.-L.

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By being, it is : the thesis of Parmenides
Author:Nestor-Luis Cordero

Summary: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.

Contents
Prologue ix
Acknowledgments xiii
ChapterI: Introductionto Parmenides 3
(a) The Region 3
(b) Chronology 5
(c) Life 8
(d) Works 11
(e) The Poem 12
(1) The Reconstruction 12
(2) The Form 14
(3) The Content 15
Chapter11: Prolegomenato Parmenides'Thesis 19
(a) Parmenides' theor(a 19
(b) The Allegorical Presentation of the Content
of the Poem 21
(c) "You Must Inquire About Everything" (1.28) 30
Chapter111: Parmenides'Thesis and Its Negation 37
(a) The Alternative in Fragment 2 37
(b) The Only Two Ways of "Leading" Thought 39
(c) Lines 3 and 5 of Fragment 2 42
(1) Estin on Hs Own and Hs Negation 44
(2) The Modal Complement of estin on Hs Own
and Hs Negation 54
ChapterIV: The Meaning of Parmenides'Thesis
(and of Its Negation) 59
(a) The Grammar of "To Be" 59
(b) The Meaning of "Being" and Returning to the
Question of the Subject of estin in 2.3a 60
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(c) The Absolutization of the Fact of Being,
the Negation of the Thesis, and the Ways
of Investigation 64
(d) The Opposition Between the Thesis
and Its Negation 69
(e) Structural Difference Between Statement
and Negation 72
(f) Why Is the Negation of the Thesis Impossible? 79
ChapterV: Parmenides'Thesis, Thinking,
and Speaking 83
(a) Thinking Is Expressed Thanks to Being 84
(b) It Has to be Said and Thought That
That Which Is Being, Is 90
(c) Impossibility of Thinking and Saying That
Which Is Not Being 92
ChapterVI: Presentationof the Thesis and
Its Negation in Fragments6 and 7 97
(a) 6.1b-2a Reintroduces the First Way
of Investigation 98
(b) Relation Between 6.1-2 and Fragment 2 101
(c) Truth, Persuasion, and Deception 103
(d) The Exhortation to Proclaim That It Is Possible
to Be and That Nothing[ness] Does Not Exist 105
(e) Parmenides Does Not Recommend
"Withdrawing" from the Thesis Expounded
in 6.1b-2a 108
(f) The Origin of the Notion of "Withdrawing"
as a Conjecture in 6.3 112
(g) Rejection of the Conjecture "1Withdraw You" 116
(h) The Thesis Expounded in Fragment 7 117
(i) A Possible Solution for the Gap in Une 6.3 119
G) Discovering the Foundation of the Two Ways
in Fragment 6 122
ChapterVII: The Negation of the Thesis, "Opinions,"
and the Nonexistent ThirdWay 125
(a) The Senses and the Wandering Intellect Do Not
Distinguish Between Being and Not Being 129
Contents vii
(b) L6gos as the Criterion by Which to Judge
the Critique of the Way Made by Men 134
(c) The Meaning of l6gos in Parmenides 136
(d) The Hypothetical"Third Way" 138
(e) Confirmation of the Existence of Only Two
Ways of 1nvestigation 143
ChapterVIII: The Meaning of the "Opinions
of Mortals" 151
(a) D6xa 1s Not Appearance 152
(b) The Object of Opinions 154
(c) D6xa and Names 156
(d) The Opinion-makers 158
(e) The Content of Opinions 160
ChapterIX: The Foundation of the Thesis:
The Way of Truth 165
(a) The Only Way That Remains 165
(b) The sfmata of estin 168
(c) The Field in Which the sfmata Operate 170
(d) The First sfma: That Which 1s Being
1s Everlasting 170
(e) 1mmobility 173
(f) Homogeneity 174
(g) Oneness 175
~Trufu 1~
Epilogue 181
Appendix 1: Parmenides' Poem 185
(a) Text 185
(b) Translation 190
Appendix 2: Note on the Transliteration
of the Greek Alphabet 197
Bibliography 199
List of Ancient Authors Cited 211
List of Modern Authors Cited 213

Text in English. Includes fragments of Parmenides' poem in Greek with English translation

xi, 215 pages ; 25 cm
 

By Being, It Is : The Thesis of Parmenides

by: Cordero, N.-L.

• ISBN-13: 9781930972032 / 978-1-930972-03-2
• ISBN-03: 1930972032 / 1-930972-03-2
• Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2004

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock