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Parmenides
 
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There are 6 critical essays on Parmenides.

Critical Essays on Parmenides
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Critical Essay by B. A. G. Fuller
13,371 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following excerpt, Fuller considers the difficulties and ramifications of Parmenides's logical assertions, explaining how Parmenides's work was rein-forced by Zeno through his paradoxical motion scenarios and modified by the skeptic Me lis sus.
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Critical Essay by Edward Hussey
10,958 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following excerpt, Hussey considers the proofs in Parmenides's poem, attempts to explain what "that which is" means, and summarizes the arguments of Parmenides's disciple Zeno.
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Critical Essay by Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.
10,761 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following excerpt, McKirahan clarifies some of the more difficult passages in Parmenides 's work and answers objections to the poem.
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Critical Essay by Scott Austin
10,279 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following excerpt, Austin introduces Parmenides's poem and considers claims that it is self-referentially inconsistent.
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Critical Essay by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield
7,147 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following excerpt, originally published in a different form in 1957, Kirk, Raven, and Schofield attempt to explicate Parmenides's poem, portions of which they deem to be of "ineradicable obscurity. " Greek words that were originally included in this essay have been omitted.
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Critical Essay by Bertrand Russell
2,028 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following excerpt, Russell argues that Parmenides did not consider the perpetual change in the meaning of words, leading to the fallacy of the impossibility of all change.


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