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Way of Truth (B2–B8.49)
Ἀλήθεια (DK 28 B2–B8.49)
The goddess's central teaching. It presents two ways of inquiry—"is" and "is not"—, rules out the second because what is not can be neither thought nor said, and censures the "two-headed" mortals who confuse being and not-being. In B8 it deduces the properties of what is: unborn and imperishable, whole and single, unmoving, without past or future, continuous, bounded and like a well-rounded sphere. It is the first extended deductive argument in Greek philosophy.
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Authorship note
An authentic part of the poem. The long fragment B8 is transmitted by Simplicius, who copied it because the book was rare; B2 is preserved by Proclus; B3 by Clement and Plotinus; B6 and B7 by Simplicius, Plato and Sextus.
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English
Parmenides
The Fragments of Parmenides: A Critical Text with Introduction and Translation, the Ancient Testimonia and a Commentary
The Conscious LibraryThe Fragments of Parmenides: A Critical Text with Introduction and Translation, the Ancient Testimonia and a Commentary
Parmenides Publishing, 2009
Translation: A. H. Coxon, rev. Richard McKirahan
ISBN 9781930972674
Edición revisada y ampliada; prefacio de Malcolm Schofield. Primera edición: Van Gorcum, 1986 (ISBN 9789023221173). Contiene la vía de la verdad completa (B2–B8.49).
Parmenides of Elea: Fragments. A Text and Translation with an Introduction
University of Toronto Press (Phoenix, suppl. vol. 18), 1984
Translation: David Gallop
ISBN 9780802069085
Texto griego y traducción; existe también en tela (ISBN 9780802024435). Contiene la vía de la verdad completa (B2–B8.49).
Parmenides
Early Greek Philosophy (2.ª ed.), cap. IV
The Conscious LibraryEarly Greek Philosophy (2.ª ed.), cap. IV
A. and C. Black / Project Gutenberg, 1908
Translation: John Burnet
Traducción completa de los fragmentos. Dominio público. Contiene la vía de la verdad completa (B2–B8.49).
Español
Parménides. Poema. Fragmentos y tradición textual
Istmo (Fundamentos), 2007
Translation: Alberto Bernabé
ISBN 9788470903588
Edición bilingüe; introducción, notas y comentarios de Jorge Pérez de Tudela; epílogo de Néstor-Luis Cordero. Contiene la vía de la verdad completa (B2–B8.49).
Other works by Parmenides
Sources
- Simplicio. In Aristotelis Physicorum libros commentaria, ed. Hermann Diels, Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca IX, Reimer, Berlín, 1882, pp. 144–146 (transcripción de B8 «por la rareza del libro»).
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