- Title
- Sextus’ Interpretation of Parmenides’ Prologue
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- Philologia Philosophica Vol. 1, p. 31-53
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.19272/202215901003
- Publisher
- Fabrizio Serra Editore
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- This article examines the interpretation of Parmenides’ prologue (28 B 1, 1-30 DK) in Sextus’ account of the Criterion of Truth (M. vii 49-260). It proceeds by three ap- proaches, each telling part of the story regarding Sextus’ sources. The rst identi es two sets of source-material by means of the ideas and language. Here basic features of the interpre- tation of the prologue emerge. The second discusses why 28 B 1, 1-30 and 28 B 7, 2-B 8, 2 DK are treated as one continuous whole, showing the kind of interpretation involved in a deliberate decision: making 28 B 8, 1-2 DK into a natural conclusion, referring to a path and to ambition (thymos) as 28 B 1, 1-2 DK had done. The third compares the prologue’s tech- nique of interpretation with the rst of two interpretations of Xenophanes, the interpretation of Pythagorean verse, and the rst of two interpretations of Empedocles, showing how these contrast sharply with the interpretation of Parmenides 28 B 7, 2-B 8, 2 DK and material linked with the briefer source. The amalgamation had originally helped assimilate Parmenides to Plato. Hence the amalgamator is seen as a Platonist with strong literary interests and skilled in the use of quotation. It is no accident that the discursive source is linked with the tradition of Timaeus-interpretation.
- Subject
- interpretation; epistemology; Platonism; vocabulary; quotation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1499552
- Identifier
- uon:54717
- Identifier
- ISSN:2785-387X
- Language
- eng
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