Chapter 2 Insight by Hindsight

Intentional Unclarity in Presocratic Proems

In: Studies in Early Greek Philosophy
Author:
Jaap Mansfeld
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40–51
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004382060_004

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Abstract

To attract the hearer’s or reader’s attention the proems of Parmenides’ Poem, Heraclitus’ logos, and Empedocles’ On Nature announce the purpose of these works in an obscure way. What is meant only becomes clear when one has studied the whole.

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Studies in Early Greek Philosophy

A Collection of Papers and One Review

Series:  Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 151
Cover Studies in Early Greek Philosophy
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9789004382060
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
31 Aug 2018

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