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The Eleatic Elements in the Metaphysical Reflection and in the Physical Mentions of the Parmenides

Publication date: 30.09.2024

ORGANON, 2024, Volume 56, pp. 35 - 52

https://doi.org/10.4467/00786500.ORG.24.004.20206

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Francesca Eustacchi
University of Macerata
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The Eleatic Elements in the Metaphysical Reflection and in the Physical Mentions of the Parmenides

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In the Parmenides, it is possible to identify affirmations that are clearly of Eleatic origin and which are re-elaborated by Plato who includes them ad hoc when developing his arguments. The dialectical contribution on the question of the multiplicity of entities given to the Parmenidean philosophy by Zeno is discussed not only in the first part of the dialogue (see 127d–128d) but also in the second. In the latter, Parmenides adopts an ontological-metaphysical setting through which Plato gives an example of the various uses of Zenonian dialectic. Here all the hypotheses concerning the One are analysed (see 136a–c).

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University of Macerata

Published at: 30.09.2024

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Francesca Eustacchi holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Human Sciences and is a teaching assistant in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Macerata. She is also a contract lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the Pegaso Telematic University. Her research interests particularly focus on Sophistic thought in relation to Platonic philosophy. She has published the monograph Leggere i Sofisti: Le diverse anime di una rivoluzione filosofica (Brescia 2021), as well as various articles and essays on the Sophists and Plato, with a particular focus on the issue of relativism, which she counters with a multifocal and relational reading (e.g. At the Source of the Multifocal Approach: Relations in the Sophistic Context in: By the Sophists to Aristotle through Plato, (eds) E. Cattanei, A. Fermani & M. Migliori (Sankt Augustin 2016). She has also edited, the volume Per la rinascita di un pensiero critico contemporaneo: Il contributo degli antichi (Milano 2017, with M. Migliori).

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