Heraclitus And Parmenides An Ontic Perspective

Author : Christian H. Sötemann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 38 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640246731

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Heraclitus and Parmenides - an Ontic Perspective by Christian H. Sötemann Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The article investigates fragments of the two Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, which are frequently seen as indicating two drastically different views of the world - the former often being summarized as "Everything flows," the latter as "Everything rests." The perspective chosen here is a descriptive one focussing on the "ontic" aspect, i.e. the level of mere being there, of presence. It is discussed how an ontic interpretation of the aforementioned Presocratic fragments allow at least a partial integration of the seemingly diametrically opposed philosophies, namely in maintaining that with all the doubtlessly occurring change in the phenomenal world, change does not imply objects turning into "nothingness," but rather into different being. Thus, change of state and development is acknowledged on the one hand, as well as the persistence of being on the other hand. Several references to 20th Century philosophy serve to underline the interpretation given here.

Author : Christian H. Sötemann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783640243679

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Heraclitus and Parmenides – an ontic perspective by Christian H. Sötemann Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, , language: English, abstract: The article investigates fragments of the two Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, which are frequently seen as indicating two drastically different views of the world – the former often being summarized as “Everything flows”, the latter as “Everything rests”. The perspective chosen here is a descriptive one focussing on the “ontic” aspect, i.e. the level of mere being there, of presence. It is discussed how an ontic interpretation of the aforementioned Presocratic fragments allow at least a partial integration of the seemingly diametrically opposed philosophies, namely in maintaining that with all the doubtlessly occurring change in the phenomenal world, change does not imply objects turning into “nothingness”, but rather into different being. Thus, change of state and development is acknowledged on the one hand, as well as the persistence of being on the other hand. Several references to 20th Century philosophy serve to underline the interpretation given here.

Author : Michael M Nikoletseas
Publisher : MICHAEL NIKOLETSEAS
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781517054151

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Parmenides: Paraphrasing Heraclitus in Verse by Michael M Nikoletseas Pdf

An analysis of the poem of Parmenides from a natural science perspective shows that it is based on Heraclitus' book. Imagery, philosophy, and even words were borrowed from Heraclitus. The new picture that emerges warrants the conclusion that Parmenides paraphrased Heraclitus in verse.

Author : Drew M. Dalton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350042056

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The Ethics of Resistance by Drew M. Dalton Pdf

Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to discover and affirm some conception of the absolute good. Without rejecting the essential role the absolute plays within ethical reasoning, Dalton interrogates the assumed value of the absolute. Dalton brings some of the most influential contemporary philosophical traditions into dialogue with each other: speculative realists like Badiou and Meillassoux; phenomenologists, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas; German Idealists, especially Kant and Schelling; psychoanalysts Freud and Lacan; and finally, post-structuralists, specifically Foucault, Deleuze, and Ranciere. The relevance of these thinkers to concrete socio-political problems is shown through reflections on the Holocaust, suicide bombings, the rise of neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism, as well as rampant consumerism and racism. This book re-defines ethical reasoning as that which refuses absolutes and resists what Milton's devil in Paradise Lost called the “tyranny of heaven.” Against traditional ethical reasoning, Dalton sees evil not as a moral failure, but as the result of an all too easy assent to the absolute; an assent which can only be countered through active resistance. For Dalton, resistance to the absolute is the sole channel through which the good can be defined.

Author : Renato Renner,Sandra Stupar
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319686554

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Time in Physics by Renato Renner,Sandra Stupar Pdf

One of the most important questions concerning the foundations of physics, especially since the discovery of relativity and quantum theory, is the nature and role of time. In this book we bring together researchers from different areas of physics, mathematics, computer science and philosophy to discuss the role time plays in physics. There have been few books on this topic to date, and two of the key aims of the workshop and this book are to encourage more researchers to explore this area, and to pique students’ interest in the different roles time plays in physics.

Author : Muus Gerrit Jan Beets
Publisher : Eburon Academic Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015013097186

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The Coherence of Reality by Muus Gerrit Jan Beets Pdf

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253212146

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Parmenides by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world. The central theme is the question of truth and the primordial understanding of truth to be found in Parmenides' "didactic poem." Heidegger highlights the contrast between Greek and Roman thought and the reflection of that contrast in language. He analyzes the decline in the primordial understanding of truth—and, just as importantly, of untruth—that began in later Greek philosophy and that continues, by virtue of the Latinization of the West, down to the present day. Beyond an interpretation of Greek philosophy, Parmenides (volume 54 of Heidegger's Collected Works) offers a strident critique of the contemporary world, delivered during a time that Heidegger described as "out of joint."

Author : Kenneth Maly,Parvis Emad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040658788

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Heidegger on Heraclitus by Kenneth Maly,Parvis Emad Pdf

This study aims to present Heraclitus as Heidegger read him and offers an account of the discussion generated by this perspective on Heraclitus.

Author : Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972544

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Route of Parmenides by Alexander P.D. Mourelatos Pdf

Mourelatos' study of the fragments of Parmenides' poem combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis in order to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato. Through philosophical, philological, and literary analysis, Mourelatos examines the morphology of images and metaphors in Parmenides' text with the aim of articulating and interpreting the poem's key concepts and component arguments. Relevant antecedents and parallels from the tradition of epic poetry, especially from Homer's Odyssey, are explored in depth.

Author : Raymond A. Prier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110805345

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Archaic Logic by Raymond A. Prier Pdf

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826499523

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The Enduring Significance of Parmenides by Raymond Tallis Pdf

An important new reading of the importance of Parmenides, widely regarded as the most influential of the Presocratic philosophers.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000082137286

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Early Greek Thinking by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Author : John Palmer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191609992

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Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy by John Palmer Pdf

John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being, necessary non-being or impossibility, and non-necessary or contingent being. This book accordingly reconsiders his place in the historical development of Presocratic philosophy in light of this new interpretation. Careful treatment of Parmenides' specification of the ways of inquiry that define his metaphysical and epistemological outlook paves the way for detailed analyses of his arguments demonstrating the temporal and spatial attributes of what is and cannot not be. Since the existence of this necessary being does not preclude the existence of other entities that are but need not be, Parmenides' cosmology can straightforwardly be taken as his account of the origin and operation of the world's mutable entities. Later chapters reassess the major Presocratics' relation to Parmenides in light of the modal interpretation, focusing particularly on Zeno, Melissus, Anaxagoras, and Empedocles. In the end, Parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being, and his arguments regarding what what must be must be like, simply in virtue of its mode of being, entitle him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from natural philosophy and theology. An appendix presents a Greek text of the fragments of Parmenides' poem with English translation and textual notes.

Author : Jean Grondin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231527231

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Introduction to Metaphysics by Jean Grondin Pdf

Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine. He follows the theological turn in the metaphysical thought of Avicenna, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, and he revisits Descartes and the cogito; Spinoza and Leibniz's rationalist approaches; Kant's reclaiming of the metaphysical tradition; and post-Kantian practice up to Hegel. He engages with twentieth century innovations that upended the discipline, particularly Heidegger's revival of the question of Being and the rediscovery of the metaphysics of existence by Sartre and the Existentialists, language by Gadamer and Derrida, and transcendence by Levinas. Metaphysics is often dismissed as a form or epoch of philosophy that must be overcome, yet by promoting a full understanding of its platform and processes, Grondin reveals its cogent approach to reality and foundational influence on modern philosophy and science. By restoring the value of metaphysics for contemporary audiences, Grondin showcases the rich currents and countercurrents of metaphysical thought and its future possibilities.

Author : Panagiotis Thanassas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015079287168

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Parmenides, Cosmos, and Being by Panagiotis Thanassas Pdf

In the philosophical poem he composed around 500 BC, Parmenides presents an anonymous goddess who - like a philosophical Gorgon - denies movement and plurality and propagates an ontology that completely petrifies the world of phenomena. This is the communis opinio, against which the current interpretation is addressed. Challenging this well-known interpretation, Panagiotis Thanassas contends that Parmenidean Truth does not deny the polymorphy of the Cosmos, but rather endeavors to noetically understand its unity as a result of participation in Being. The second and longer part of the poem, the so-called Doxa, then presents a cosmogonic and cosmological "world-arrangement" of divine origin, founded on the combination of the two forms of Light and Night.