Parmenide's Fragment B3 Revisited

• Autor(a) principal: Altman, William Henry Furness
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Hypnos
• Texto Completo: https://hypnos.org.br/index.php/hypnos/article/view/458
• topic: Parmênides; Platão; Sofista; Mourelatos; Heidegger; Plotino; Proclo; Parmenides; Plato; Sophist; Heidegger; Plotinus; Proclus; Mourelatos

The justification for placing Parmenides fr. 3 (DK 28B3) in “Truth” is weak, and both its ambiguity and capacity to generate radically different interpretations suggest that it belongs to “Doxa.” The paper analyzes the fragment’s sources (Clement, Plotinus, and Proclus), the circumstances of its belated entry into any collection (1835), and argues that the ongoing debate between the reading or Hermann Diels(denndasselbeistDenken und Sein) and the readingof it introduced by Eduard Zeller arises from thepresupposition—heretofore unquestioned—that it belongs in “Truth.” The paper’s principal purpose is not to settle this famous interpretive dilemma nor to reinterpret B3 within “Doxa,” but rather to destabilize the currently unquestioned view that it belongs in “Truth,” and to call into question any global interpretations of Parmenides that make B3 a central component.