2023
DOI: 10.14195/1984-249x_33_25
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The gap between Parmenides’ argument on Being and his cosmology in the Aristotelian account

Bruno Loureiro Conte

Abstract: In some of the Aristotelian accounts, Parmenides’ thesis is construed in opposition to the philosophy of nature; on the other hand, he is also depicted, in a different context, as a cosmologist, to whom the Stagirite (and a long tradition afterwards, ending with Simplicius) ascribes a theory of becoming and its principles. In this paper, I exhibit and analyse the relevant passages from Physics I 1-3, Metaphysics I 3 and 5 and On generation and corruption I 3, providing an interpretation that aims to solve the … Show more

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