A Doxa no poema de Parmênides: uma investigação a partir dos testemunhos doxográficos

• Autor(a) principal: Conte, Bruno Loureiro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19272
• topic: Parmênides de Eléia; Eleatismo; Doxografia; Parmenides of Elea; Eleaticism; Doxography; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

The aim of this investigation is to establish the place of the so-called Doxa section in Parmenides’ Poem, both in terms of its textual reconstruction and of its theoretical value. The task is justified, in the one hand, by the acknowledgement that the modern picture of the Poem, with its division into two main Parts, Alêtheia (Truth) and Doxa (Opinion), is not in complete agreement with our sources. In this perspective, the dichotomical principle adopted by modern editors of the fragments of Parmenides is in lack of proper scrutinity. We begin thereby with a careful review of the sources, with the objective of determining the precise thematic content referred to in the tradition by the expression ta pros doxan. Particular attention is dedicated to the testimonies of Simplicius and Aristotle. In the other hand, the dominant view in the scholarly litterature, with its tendency to undermine the value of “opinions” in Parmenides’ thought, faces the problem of explaining why a Cosmogony is present in the so-understood Second Part of the Poem. Drawing from our investigation of the sources, we propose a deflationary hypothesis about the Doxa, which is to be regarded as comprehending verses B8.51-61 and B9.1-4 (according to Diels-Kranz numbering of the fragments). As a result, it is shown that this section is to be inserted, together with the Cosmogony properly speaking, into the larger context of a Diakosmêsis, and an interpretative hypothesis is elaborated trying to understand its positive theoretical value, in terms of what has been seen in the tradition as the postulation of cosmological principles (arkhai), corresponding in the Poem to a “cosmical arrangement” (diakosmos) of opposites. According to this hypothesis, however, the Doxa is to be interpreted not only as a physical theory, but also as implying epistemologicalcritical aspects, as well as in the grounding of Parmenides’ philosophy of language, thus revealing its rôle in the global argument of the Poem