... Two weeks ago I posted an invitation to "Metaphysics 2003. Second World Conference" to be held in Rome, Italy, next July. Among the "Main Topic Areas" are...
... A reader of these lists has communicated to me privately some objections to my last post. Now there is no law against such a private communication, nor do...
... I think the activity began even earlier. Of course, it depends on what we call metaphysics. So, the answer to what is metaphysics cannot start with a...
... What Was He Thinking? What was Plato thinking when he composed the eight hypotheses of the Parmenides? Of course we don't KNOW. We are not mind readers....
Thank you, Szabolcs, for your reply to mine of 3 November. Of course your criticisms are in many ways very just. For example, your insistence on the...
... Plato was not so lucky as Parmenides was with the goddess. The goddess tells Parmenides the truth and he could record it in this poem. Plato´s dialogue...
... Let me reiterate, Szabolcs, that these are some hypotheses I put forth here, some interpretations of Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle. Surely we don't KNOW...
The meaning of a document varies in relation to subjective determination of 'genre'. Plato's Symposium seems to me a work of dramatic art that doesn't produce...
... Metamorphosis of Metaphysics I asked recently, what was Plato trying to say in his dialogue, the Parmenides? Now what was Parmenides trying to say in his...
... Over the last several weeks I have referred several times to the primitive context of Parmenides' poem and the ideas it expresses. He lived and wrote in...
... A few weeks ago, while writing about the place of Parmenides in the early stages of Greek thought, I recited a litany of names of scholars who have...
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... If metaphysical philosophy has evolved in the past, as we have here made out, may it continue to evolve in the future? To deny that, would be presumptuous,...
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Jan 19, 2003 2:57 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the aristotle-met group: should our kids lose their virginity before they do drugs? o before they do...
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We are currently reading Metaphysics in a discussion group I belong to. We talk a lot about the genus "being" as a set which contains everything and therefore...
We are currently reading Metaphysics in a discussion group I belong to. We talk a lot about the genus "being" as a set which contains everything and therefore...
We are currently reading Metaphysics in a discussion group I belong to. We talk a lot about the genus "being" as a set which contains everything and therefore...
Edward Little
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Jan 27, 2003 3:20 pm
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Sorry about that, Kalev. I was copying your msg, and inadvertently sent it back to the list. Anyhow, glad to hear from you. Meanwhile, holding my comments,...
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Jan 27, 2003 3:24 pm
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... The question was raised Sunday last by Normcot, "if a set could be created of non-possible things, like square circles?" First of all, this is not "a very...
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... The question was raised Sunday last by Normcot, "if a set could be created of non-possible things, like square circles?" First of all, this is not "a very...
... "Habent sua fata libelli" (Terence) I have many times on this list insisted that pieces of art of all kinds, including ancient literature and philosophy,...
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... THE "AXIS AGE" At the same time that Parmenides was making his journey beyond the gates of Day and Night with the daughters of the Sun, to be greeted by...
... PARMENIDES' FRAGMENT DK II Metaphysics (the name was coined, it seems, by an auditor or editor of Aristotle) actually began with Parmenides' fragment...
... PARMENIDES' FRAGMENT DK III . . . to gar auto noein estin te kai einai There has been a lot of argument about this short fragment, which follows directly...
... PARMENIDES' FRAGMENT DK III . . . to gar auto noein estin te kai einai There has been a lot of argument about this short fragment, which follows directly...
... PARMENIDES' FRAGMENT DK VIII This is the longest and most detailed of all, sixty one lines long. Our main source is Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's...
... A QUESTION I have tried to present to you in the last three posts all of the eight metaphysical fragments of Parmenides, in a way that you can embrace them...
This list was included in the distribution of this msg, but apparently failed to make it. ... A QUESTION I have tried to present to you in the last three posts...
... ANOTHER QUESTION Why are we spending time researching these old lines that are coming to us from twenty five hundred years ago? They are among the earliest...
... ANOTHER QUESTION Why are we spending time researching these old lines that are coming to us from twenty five hundred years ago? They are among the earliest...
Seems to me that there'd be a Russell-paradox problem here, which Aristotle would already have been aware of. If "Being" is a genus, then what does the being...
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