Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
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...
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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Series: | Humanities
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Summary: | 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 the journey. |
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ISBN: | 9781009047562 9781316517819 9781009048484 |
DOI: | 10.1017/9781009047562 |
Access: | Open Access |