The enduring significance of Parmenides

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Raymond Tallis
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Continuum
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English

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Enduring Significance of Parmenides: Unthinkable Thought (Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy)
April 2008, Continuum International Publishing Group, Continuum
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The enduring significance of Parmenides: unthinkable thought
2007, Continuum
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Table of Contents

Preface: The once and future philosopher
The strange dawn of western thought
The central thoughts
The unthinkability of Parmenides' thought
Parmenides' multiple legacy
The significance of Parmenides : preliminary observations
The existence of what-is-not
Surely not is not?
A historical excursus : Russell, Strawson and reference to non-existent objects
The origin of what-is-not : possibility
Some further thoughts on being, thinking, existence and possibility
Propositional awareness encounters itself
The nature of propositional awareness
The self-encounter of propositional awareness
Thought and stasis
Reflections on matter
Why Parmenides happened
The greatest presocratic
The presocratic cognitive revolution
The rise of the city as polis
The city : cognitive density
Trade, colonisation and the obligation to make one's self clear
Writing : storing human consciousness outside of the human body
Parmenides' footnotes : Plato and Aristotle
The passage from presocratic to postsocratic thought
Plato's wrong turn
Aristotle's wrong turn
The problem of the generality of propositional awareness
Parmenides today
Taking Parmenides seriously
A debit register
Thoughts about the unthinkability of thought
Thinking, knowing, and being
The Parmenidean challenge.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
182/.3
Library of Congress
B235.P24 T35 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17932396M
ISBN 13
9780826499523
LCCN
2007019228
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1575443

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