The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought

by Patricia Curd

Book Overview

Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. He rejected as impossible the scientific inquiry practiced by the earlier Presocratic philosophers and held that generation, destruction, and change are unreal and that only one thing exists. In this book, Patricia Curd argues that Parmenides sought to reform rather than to reject scientific inquiry, and she offers a more coherent account of his influence on later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930972156
• ISBN13: 9781930972155
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher