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How did Xenophanes Become an Eleatic Philosopher?

Published:2020-08-01 Issue:1 Volume:41 Page:1-26
ISSN:2037-7177
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Author:

Brémond Mathilde¹

Affiliation:

1. Universität Trier , Trier , Germany

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, I investigate how Xenophanes was ‘eleaticised’, i.e. attributed theses and arguments that belong to Parmenides and Melissus. I examine texts of Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus in order to determine if they considered Xenophanes as a philosopher and a monist. I show that neither Plato nor Aristotle regarded him as a philosopher, but rather as a pantheist poet who claimed, in a vague way, that everything is one. But Theophrastus interpreted too literally Aristotle’s claims and was the first to make Xenophanes a proper monist philosopher.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Philosophy,Classics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/elen-2020-0001/pdf

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