The fragments of Parmenides
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Only fragments survive
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~10,500 words · 50 passages
Cite this work
- APAParmenides. (n.d.). The fragments of Parmenides. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/parmenides/the-fragments-of-parmenides
- MLAParmenides. "The fragments of Parmenides." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/parmenides/the-fragments-of-parmenides.
- ChicagoParmenides. The fragments of Parmenides. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/parmenides/the-fragments-of-parmenides.
What it is about
Parmenides' poem, in fragments.
Context and history
Parmenides of Elea (c. 515–450 BC) wrote in verse: a goddess explains that being is and non-being is not, and therefore there is neither change nor plurality. It contradicts everything we see, and no later Greek philosopher could shake it off. Plato devoted a whole dialogue to him.
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The Editor takes this occasion to announce the commencement of VOLUME IV. of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. The first lumber will be ready in January, 1870, and hereafter the Journal will e issued as a regular quarterly and at the usual times, to-wit : Januy, April, July, and October. In Vol. IV. will appear, besides other valuable matter, fV I. A complete Translation of the celebrated "Meditations " of Descartes. II. Fragments of Parmenides translated from the Greek original. (Other Greek fragments are also to he expected.) III. The Outlines of the Philosophy of Eights, Morals and Religion, hy G. W. F. Hegel (as given in his Philosophical Propaedeutics). IV. Outlines of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (also, from the Propaedeutics, by Hegel himself). jjgg^Will you aid the circulation of the Journal in one or more of the following ways: 1st. By sending $2 for Vol. IV.? 2d. By sending |5 for the three volumes already published ? 3d. By inducing anjT one else to subscribe? TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Two dollars par volume; single number, fifty cento; three volumes (or three copies of either volume), five dollars; first four volumes (or fcur copies of either volume), six dollars; ten copies of Vol. III. or IV. for ten dollars. Vols. I. and II. bound in one volume, in muslin, $4 50; Vol. III. in musl
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