Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics

Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics offers a novel and comprehensive solution to one of the oldest interpretive puzzles in the history of ancient Greek philosophy: the so-called "e;problem of the Doxa."e; This puzzle arises out of an apparent conflict between the main part of Parmenides' poem, called "e;the Aletheia,"e; and the cosmological part, called "e;the Doxa."e; Whereas in the Aletheia...