![]() ![]() Plato, Parmenides and Mortal Philosophy also includes a complete new translation of 'On Nature' and a substantial overview and bibliography of contemporary scholarship on Parmenides. The themes of human finitude, mortality, love, and singularity echo in thinkers such as Arendt, and Schürmann as well. ![]() In this interpretation, Parmenides' philosophy resonates with post-metaphysical and contemporary thought. Hence, Parmenides' poem articulates a "tragic return", i.e., a turn away from metaphysics to the community of mortals. Plato’s Parmenides consists in a critical examinationof the theory of forms, a set of metaphysical and epistemologicaldoctrines articulated and defended by the character Socrates in thedialogues of Plato’s middle period (principally Phaedo,Republic IIX, Symposium). The Parmenides in point of style is one of the best of the Platonic writings the first portion of the dialogue is in no way defective in ease and grace and. ![]() 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. Platos solution in the Parmenides is to have this transition happen at an instant (exaiphns) that neither belongs to rest nor motion, but rather is between. 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. ![]()
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