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By Being, It Is
In By Being, It Is, Néstor-Luis Cordero explores the richness of the Parmenidean thesis, which became the cornerstone of philosophy. Cordero's textual analysis of the poem's fragments reveals that Parmenides' intention was highly didactic. His poem applied, for the first time, an explicative method that deduced consequences from a true axiom: by being, it is. To ignore this reality meant to be a victim of opinions.

This volume explains how without this conceptual base, all later ontology would have been impossible. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the Parmenidean doctrine and helps the reader appreciate the imperative value of Parmenides' claim that "by being, it is."

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Néstor-Luis Cordero

By Being, It Is
The Thesis of Parmenides
OCT 2004, 228 pages
Cloth 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
ISBN 1-930972-03-2
$28.00sp/£20.00

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The Legacy of Parmenides
The Legacy of Parmenides examines Parmenides' arguments, considering his connection to earlier Greek thought and how his account of what-is could have served as a model for later philosophers. Curd also explores the theories of his successors, including the Pluralists (Anaxagoras and Empedocles), the Atomists (Leucippus and Democritus), the later Eleatics (Zeno and Melissus), and the later Presocratics (Philolaus of Croton and Diogenes of Apollonia). She concludes with a discussion of the importance of Parmenides' work to Plato's Theory of Forms. The Legacy of Parmenides challenges traditional views of early Greek philosophy and provides new insights into the work of Parmenides.

Originally published 1998 by Princeton University Press.
This paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.

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Patricia Curd

The Legacy of Parmenides
Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought
OCT 2004, 309 pages
Paper 6" x 9"
ISBN 1-930972-15-6
$22.00tx/£15.50

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To Think Like God
(Scholarly and fully annotated edition)

TO THINK LIKE GOD focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon, and the lawmaker Parmenides of Elea. In their own ways, each thinker held that true insight, whether as wisdom or certainty, belonged not to mortal human beings but to the gods.

The Pythagoreans sought to approach this otherworldly knowledge by studying numerical relationships, believing them to govern the universe, and that those who know the number of a thing know its true nature. Yet their quest was a hopeless one, bogged down by cultism, numerology, political conspiracies, bloody uprisings, and exile. Above all, number did not turn out as the most reliable of mediums; it was certainly not a key to the realm of the divine. Thus, their contributions to philosophy's inception, while much better publicized, were not the most significant. That particular role was reserved for an unusual challenge and the elaborate reaction it provoked.

The challenge came from Xenophanes, who had argued...

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Arnold Hermann

To Think Like God (Scholarly and fully annotated edition)
Pythagoras and Parmenides
The Origins of Philosophy
DEC 2004, 404 pages
7 illustrations
Cloth 6 1/2" x 9 1/4"
ISBN 1-930972-00-8
$32.00sp/£22.50

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The Illustrated To Think Like God
Fascinating illustrations contribute to this illuminating account of how and why philosophy emerged and make it a must-read for any inquisitive thinker unsatisfied with prevailing assumptions on this timely and highly relevant subject.

By taking the reader back to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy more than 500 years B.C., the author tells the story of the Pythagorean quest for otherworldly knowledge—a tale of cultism, political conspiracies, and bloody uprisings that eventually culminate in tragic failure. The emerging hero is Parmenides, who introduces for the first time a technique for testing the truth of a statement that was not based on physical evidence or mortal sense-perception, but instead relied exclusively on the faculty we humans share with the gods: the ability to reason.


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Arnold Hermann

The Illustrated To Think Like God
Pythagoras and Parmenides
The Origins of Philosophy
DEC 2004, 336 pages,
210 illustrations
Cloth 7 1/2" x 9 3/4"
ISBN 1-930972-17-2
$35.00/£24.50

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The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman
In the Statesman, Plato brings together—only to challenge and displace—his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reissued here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying context of the dialogue, revealing that its chaotic variety of movements is actually a carefully harmonized act of realizing the mean.

The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds at the end of the dialogue? Miller addressed that question in a separate essay, first published in 1999 and reprinted here. In it, he opens the horizon of interpretation to include the new metaphysics of the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the "unwritten teachings."

This study demonstrates how the Statesman is the culminating expression of Plato's lifelong effort, both in Athens and in the Academy, to bring metaphysical insight to the unending political crisis of his times.

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Originally published in 1980 in the Netherlands by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
This paperback edition includes a new preface and the essay "Dialectic Education and Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Statesman" ©1999 by the Catholic University of America Press. Reprinted with permission.




Mitchell Miller

The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman
OCT 2004, 219 pages
Paper 6" x 9"
ISBN 1-930972-16-4
$20.00tx/£14.00

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