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Aristotle and the Eleatic One (Hardcover)
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Aristotle and the Eleatic One (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
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In this book Timothy Clarke examines Aristotle's response to
Eleatic monism, the theory of Parmenides of Elea and his followers
that reality is 'one'. Clarke argues that Aristotle interprets the
Eleatics as thoroughgoing monists, for whom the pluralistic,
changing world of the senses is a mere illusion. Understood in this
way, the Eleatic theory constitutes a radical challenge to the
possibility of natural philosophy. Aristotle discusses the Eleatics
in several works, including De Caelo, De Generatione et
Corruptione, and the Metaphysics. But his most extensive treatment
of their monism comes at the beginning of the Physics, where he
criticizes them for overlooking the fact that 'being is said in
many ways' - in other words, that there are many ways of being.
Through a careful analysis of this and other criticisms, Clarke
explains how Aristotle's engagement with the Eleatics prepares the
ground for his own theory of the principles of nature. Aristotle is
commonly thought to be an unreliable interpreter of his Presocratic
predecessors; in contrast, this book argues that his critique can
shed valuable light on the motivation of the Eleatic theory and its
influence on the later philosophical tradition.
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