![]() ![]() 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. The Parmenides of Plato belongs to a stage of philosophy which has passed away. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Diogenes Laertius says that his father was Pires, and that he belonged to a rich and noble family. 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. Parmenides was born in Elea (called Velia in Roman times), a city located in Magna Graecia. Plato deals with Parmenides on several levels there, some serious, some ironic: among other things, Plato provides explicit quotations from Parmenides’ poem, he discusses the possibility of a monistic position in general, and he investigates and develops Parmenides’ account of Being and non-Being. ![]()
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