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Episode 20·January 17, 2018·pre-socratic

All for One, and One for All: Parmenides of Elea

Parmenides of Elea is the father of western metaphysics, and one of the most fascinating and strange figures of ancient philosophy. Anyone whom Aristotle called ‘almost insane’ can’t be all bad, right?

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Fragments of Empedocles and Parmenides from the Commentaries of Simplicius

Empedocles; Parmenides; in Simplicius; ed. Amedeo Peyron · 1810 · Greek · 88 pages

In this groundbreaking 19th-century study, Amedeo Peyron performs a high-stakes rescue mission of ancient Greek thought. By comparing a newly discovered Turin manuscript against the standard Venice edition, Peyron exposes the latter as a fraudulent 'back-translation' from medieval Latin, effectively

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