Author : Vishwa Adluri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Finite, The
ISBN : 147259794X
Parmenides, Plato, and Mortal Philosophy by Vishwa Adluri Pdf
In a new interpretation of Parmenides' philosophical poem On Nature, Vishwa Adluri considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals. Adluri argues that the tripartite division of Parmenides' poem allows the thinker to brilliantly hold together the paradox of speaking about being in time and articulates a tragic knowing: mortals may aspire to the transcendence of metaphysics, but are inescapably returned to their mortal condition. Hence, Parmenides' poem articulates a "tragic return", i.e., a turn away from meta.