The enduring significance of Parmenides: unthinkable thought
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1. Verfasser: Tallis, Raymond (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Continuum ©2007
Schriftenreihe:Continuum studies in ancient philosophy
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index
Preface: The once and future philosopher -- The strange dawn of western thought -- The central thoughts -- The unthinkability of Parmenides' thought -- A multiple legacy -- The significance of Parmenides : preliminary observations -- The existence of what-is-not -- 'Surely not is not?' -- An 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 -- Summary -- Why Parmenides happened -- Introduction -- The greatest presocratic -- The presocratic cognitive revolution -- The rise of the city as polis -- The city : cognitive density -- The obligation to make one's self clear : trading and colonization -- Storing human consciousness outside of the human body -- Summary -- Parmenides' footnotes : Plato and Aristotle -- The passage from presocratic to post-socratic 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
Parmenides of Elea is widely regarded as the most important of the Presocratic philosophers and one of the most influential thinkers of all time. He is famous, or notorious, for asserting that change, movement, generation and perishing are illusions arising from our senses, that past and future do not exist, and that the universe is a single, homogeneous, static sphere. This picture of the world is not only contrary to the experience of every conscious moment of our lives, it is also unthinkable, since thoughts themselves are events that come into being and pass away. In this important new boo
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