Parménide

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly takes from Parmenides the formula "what is is, what is not is not." Beneath an apparent tautology, he sees in it the discovery of the excluded middle and of non-contradiction, without which there would be neither Euclid nor logic, and the foundation of the mathematical approach12. He places Parmenides on the side of identity, of being as principle and of the fixed point, and sets him against Heraclitean movement. In his view, Parmenides, isolated from Heraclitus, founds an ontology of invariant being3. He also mentions a synthesis of the two, which he calls the halt. He reads the poem On Nature as a clear separation between opinion and science4. He also sees in it an example of the mixture of science, philosophy and poetry among the physicists. He attributes to him the expression "the tooth of chance." He also notes the Platonic parricide. Finally, he criticises the "prophetic" use made of him by Heidegger and his heirs, for whom Parmenides supposedly had immediate contact with being, based on fragments that can be made to say anything56.

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