Becoming Being - On Parmenides' Transformative Philosophy

This study offers a new interpretation of the poem of the founder of Western philosophy: Parmenides. It shows that there is more in his poem than the description of Being by means of negative adjectives such as ingenerated and immobile. His words ask his audience to question their habits, to modify their goals, to engage in new enterprises and to look with a critical eye at their previous attempts to get knowledge. It operates as a travel guide that leads the audience on a journey that will educate them and help them to gradually become philosophically mature, to become true themselves, which can also be described as the encouragement to become Being.

About the author

Chiara Robbiano was born in Genoa (Italy). She lives in the Netherlands where she is lecturer in philosophy at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Robbiano
• Publisher: Academia Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9783896653833
• ISBN: 978-3-89665-383-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 219 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 423 g
• Series: International Plato Studies; International Plato Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Antiquity