Ordering the Universe in Speech

Macé, Arnaud

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“…While for the Stranger this is a blunder, however, for Cherubin it is a point that Parmenides wishes us to see. For a self-consciously aporetic and un-dogmatic Parmenides, see also Mackenzie (1982). I address this view below.…”

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Language and doctrine in Parmenides’Way of Reality

Tor

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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As early as Plato and as recently as current scholarship, readers of Parmenides have diagnosed tensions of one sort or another between his ontological views and the language through which he expresses those views. In the first instance, this article examines earlier claims for such tensions and argues that they are predicated on problematic assumptions concerning Parmenides’ ontological commitments or his strictures regarding the use of language. In the second instance, however, it argues that Parmenides’ Way of Reality does indeed confront us with tensions between language and doctrine, that these tensions are more pointed and sustained than scholars generally recognize and that they can be identified independently of specific or determinate elaboration of Parmenides’ precise ontological views. This analysis discloses a reflective preoccupation with, and a consistent attitude towards, the scope and limitations of human language. Parmenides persistently evinces his awareness that his description of what-is proceeds through expressive measures that are imported with difficulty from a different domain and, consequently, are limited, indirect and often figurative. The article closes by pointing to a meaningful (but partial) affinity between Parmenides and those Platonists who placed their own ultimate philosophical and ontological principle beyond the expressive reach of words.

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“…Nussbaum (1979) 73–75; Kraus (1987) 91; Mansfeld (2021) 211–14. See further Macé (2019) 49–52, 56–57 on the role of human names and signs in constituting Opinion ’s ‘deceptive arrangement (κόσμον) of words’ (B8.52).…”

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Language and doctrine in Parmenides’Way of Reality

Tor

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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Bertoni

2023

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy

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Roman attitudes to the environment—that place where culture and nature meet—blend appreciation for the land’s usefulness, its divinity, and its beauty. Musings on the natural world appear in agricultural treatises, and philosophers and poets consider how nature is wild and tamed, productive and destructive. Drawing on ecocritical theory and the ways humans create and shape their interactions with the natural world, this chapter traces the varied conceptions of the Roman environment through the trope of the locus amoenus, the gods of fields and groves, and the quintessentially Roman appreciation of the beauty of a fertile field. What emerges is an appreciation for nature in its interactions with people, a reciprocal relationship considered to benefit both people and place.

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Platon, Homère et les mathématiques militaires

Macé¹

2022

Dossier : Nature/Natures : Approches Anthropologiques

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Ordering the Universe in Speech

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Language and doctrine in Parmenides’Way of Reality

Language and doctrine in Parmenides’Way of Reality

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Platon, Homère et les mathématiques militaires

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