Eleatic Ontology from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity

Anna Motta; Christopher  Kurfess

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-236-6

Eleatic Ontology from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity

Authors

Anna Motta

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2787-259X

Christopher Kurfess

Gettysburg College

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0072-5493

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-236-6

Keywords:

Eleaticism, Ontology, Reception, Being, Parmenides

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 209

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-30150

Eleatic Ontology from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity collects essays exploring the late-ancient reception of Parmenides of Elea’s groundbreaking account of being. Written by an international array of scholars and reflecting a range of outlooks and approaches, the essays included offer fresh perspectives on crucial points in that reception, reveal points of contact and instances of mutual interaction between philosophic traditions, and allow readers to reflect on the revolutionary new conceptions that thinkers of these eras developed in the continuing confrontation with the venerable figure of Parmenides and the challenges posed by his thought.

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Author Biographies

Anna Motta, University of Naples Federico II

Anna Motta received her Ph.D in Late Antique, Medieval and Humanistic Philosophy at the University of Salerno and is currently Assistant Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy and History of Imperial and Late Antique Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. She works mainly on Plato and the Platonic tradition. She has published on Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, the reception of Presocratics and isagogical issues.

Christopher Kurfess, Gettysburg College

Christopher Kurfess received his Ph.D. in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics at Gettysburg College. The author of articles on the Presocratics, Aristotle, and the ancient commentators, his research interests include the reception of Parmenides’ poem, Platonic and non-Platonic Socratic literature, and Aristotelian natural science.