Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

• Main Author: Folit-Weinberg, Benjamin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Series: Humanities
• Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Greek literature; ancient philosophy; classical philosophy
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Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. This book uncovers the origins of this development in Homeric poetic imagery and particularly Parmenides' adaptation of the image of the hodos, the road and...