![]() The way back, through Plato, to the pre-Socratics. This work describes a philosophical trajectory that returns us, through metaphysics, to our mortality, and that leads all It thus differs from logos in a crucial respect, namely, in being able to maintain the irreducible plurality and individuality of existence. Mythic discourse captures individual mortal existence without reducing it to a staticĮntity. 2 PARMENIDES PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Cephalus, Adeimantus, Glaucon, Antiphon, Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristoteles. To mortality, our philosophical self-knowledge must address the issues of time, change, phusis (natural growth), and the individual. ![]() As ephemeral creatures inescapably subject 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. 'Parmenides' is one of Platos dialogues in which the philosopher Parmenides visits Athens and engages in a philosophical conversation with a young Socrates. ![]() Philosophical logoi in their generality can never give a complete account of why living creatures die. ![]() Move beyond the static temporality episteˉmeˉ presumes (a temporality that is preserved in logos), to the temporal existence of mortals such as Parmenides and Socrates. If we wish to retrieve the temporality that makes the existence of individuals possible and their death a real loss, we must ![]()
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