Le très curieux silence des Doxographes à propos de l'incompétence des auteurs des opinions chez Parménide

Authors

  • Nestor-Luis Cordero Université de Rennes 1. France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v15i1p01-17

Keywords:

Parménides, Opinion, Doxographie

Abstract

Since the Goddess of Parmenides presents the two ways to explain the reality that must be faced by this who want to become a "man who knows", the truth and the opinions of mortals, she makes clear that the opinions (dóxai) are not "reliable". Later, when he describes in detail how the makers of opinions really are, the description is devastating: they are the people who are incapable of judging, who are astonished, who do not know how to use sensations, and who have a misguided intellect. Consequently, when they express their opinions, they present only a "misleading set of words. However, already from Aristotle onwards, this way of conceiving reality is attributed to Parmenides himself, and not to "the mortals". Theophrastus echoes this interpretation of Aristotle and, with him, the totality of the Doxographers. Obviously, in order to attribute the "opinions" to Parmenides himself, any reference to the incapacity of his authors is absent from the comments: no Doxographer mentions it. 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

  • Nestor-Luis Cordero, Université de Rennes 1. France

    Professeur Emérite.

References

Bormann, K. "The interpretation of Parmenides by the neoplatonist Simplicius", The Monist, 62, 1979.

Cordero, N. L. "Las 'partes' del Poema de Parménides: un prejuicio interpretativo trágico", Mathémata, Ecos de Filosofía Antigua, ed. R.Gutiérrez, Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, 2013

Cordero, N. L. "La Déesse de Parménide, maîtresse de philosophie", La naissance de la raison en Grèce, ed. J.-F. Mattéi, Paris: PUF, 1990.

Cordero, N. L. "Parmenidean 'Physics' is not a part of what Parmenides calls 'dóxa", in Parmenides, venerable and awesone, ed. N.L.Cordero, Las Vegas/Zurich/Athens : Parmenides Publishing, 2011, 95-113.

Cordero, N. L. By Being, It Is, Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2004.

Cordero, N. L. La invención de la filosofía, Buenos Aires : Biblos, 2017.

Cordero, N. L. Les deux chemins de Parménide, Paris/Bruxelles: Vrin/Ousia, 1997².

Cordero, N. L., "Aristote, créateur du Parménide díkranos que nous héritons aujourd'hui", Anais de filosofia clássica, X, 19, 2016.

Cordero, N. L., "Il y a, évidemment, un «Parménide phusikós», mais…(A propos de Rossetti, L. Un altro Parmenide, 2017)", Archai, 25, 2019.

Cordero, N. L., "Les deux chemins de Parménide dans les fragments 6 et 7", Phronesis, 24, 1979.

Cordero, N. L., Heráclito: uno es todo, todo es uno, Buenos Aires : Colihue, 2018.

Coxon, A. H. The fragments of Parmenides, Assen: Van Gorcum 1986.

Galgano, N. S. "Graduação e pós-graduação em Parmênides DK 7", Educación, arte y política en la filosofía antigua, V. Suñol y M. Berrón [eds.], Asociación Argentina de Filosofía Antigua, Libro digital PDF, 2020.

Jaeger, W. The theology of the early greek Philosophers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947.

Mansfeld, J. Aristotle, Plato and the Preplatonic Doxography and Chronography in Storiografia e dossografia nella filosofia antica, ed. G. Cambiano, Torino, 1986.

O'Brien, D. ; Frère, J. Études sur Parménide, ed. P. Aubenque, Paris: Vrin, 1987

Palmer, J. Parmenides and presocratic philosophy, Oxford, 2009.

Perry, B. M. Simplicius as a source for and interpreter of Parmenides, Thèse, University of Michigan 1983.

Ross, W. D. Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oxford 1924, vol. 1.

Rossetti, L. Un altro Parmenide, 2 volumes, Bologne : Diogene, 2017.

Tarán, L. Parmenides, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.

Downloads

Published

2021-05-21

Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Le très curieux silence des Doxographes à propos de l’incompétence des auteurs des opinions chez Parménide. (2021). Journal of Ancient Philosophy, 15(1), 01-17. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v15i1p01-17