We're studying Parmenides in Ancient Philosophy, going over Peter Kingsley's Reality. It's definitely interesting. But- and but. If Everyone has been misinterpreting Parmenides, from Plato to All Modern Scholars, then who's to say Kingsley has the right of it?
Either way, the book is a good read, even if it does resemble a crime novel. The language is easily understood and sometimes provocative, but it's the concepts that fascinate me more. Are we all under a spell? It would provide a few answers. Are we dead, walking about in the belief that we're really alive? If that's the case, then what does "alive" really mean? Is there then a difference between life and death? If there isn't, then how can we justify the term "death" at all? Unless, perhaps, the reference is only regarding the death of the mind - but that's not what the text seems to say.
Anyway, I'm off to get some tea and practice hesychia in the aviary.
Either way, the book is a good read, even if it does resemble a crime novel. The language is easily understood and sometimes provocative, but it's the concepts that fascinate me more. Are we all under a spell? It would provide a few answers. Are we dead, walking about in the belief that we're really alive? If that's the case, then what does "alive" really mean? Is there then a difference between life and death? If there isn't, then how can we justify the term "death" at all? Unless, perhaps, the reference is only regarding the death of the mind - but that's not what the text seems to say.
Anyway, I'm off to get some tea and practice hesychia in the aviary.
4 comments:
Sounds very interesting.
The questions about interpretation are good ones; keep them up. After a few more philosophy classes, I'll give you a book by a philosopher named Gadamer. It will actually be pretty easy to read and understand (once you have a few more philosophy classes under your belt), and it talks about the task of interpretation in a very compelling and productive way. I think you would find it helpful and interesting.
Oh, also: who's your philosophy professor?
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thought....your dad is proud of you!
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Her name is Jessica Elbert. She has short hair - brown, I think - always wears a long skirt, and has a snake tattoo on her left forearm.
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