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Title: Parmenides of Elea: A text and translation with an introduction (Phoenix Supplementary Volume)
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| Parmenides of Elea: A text and translation with an introduction (Phoenix Supplementary Volume) by University of Toronto Press Just what I was looking for | Being new to the pre-Socratics, I sought a text that has a good translation but also explores the sources of the fragments and alternative translations of important or controversial lines. This text does exactly that. Further, the introduction does a good job of explaining the entire work, taking a point of view and explaining the logic of the position. Although I found myself wanting some exploration of other interpretations, I realize that this is the role of a more comprehensive analysis - this book is intended to provide a complete primary source.
If you are interested in finding out what Parmenides actually had to say, along with the evidence that he actually said it, I highly recommend this text.
With respect to Parmenides' work itself, it is both groundbreaking (in 500 BCE) and profound even today as we see that philosophers still grapple with some of the same issues. His claims include that the universe is an unchanging unity, that our senses are not to be trusted, and that reasoning is the only true path to knowledge. | | Parmenides of Elea: A text and translation with an introduction (Phoenix Supplementary Volume) by University of Toronto Press Product Description | David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides' life and thought. All of the fragments have been translated in full and are arranged in the order that has become canonical since the publication of the fifth edition of Diels-Rranz's Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Alternative renderings are provided for passages whose meaning is disputed or where major questions of interpretation hinge upon the text or translation adopted. In an extended introductory essay, Gallop offers guidance on the back- ground of the poem, and a continuous exposition of it, together with a critical discussion of its basic argument. The volume also includes an extensive bibliography, a glossary of key terms in the poem, and a section on sources and authorities. |
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