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CORDERO, Nestor-Luis. The palíntropos path of the Goddess of Parmenides. Nova tellus [online]. 2023, vol.41, n.1, pp.55-72.  Epub 31-Mar-2023. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2023.41.1.2300s01x03.

Parmenides introduces two “novelties” which will remain forever as the pillars of “philosophy”: the certainty that, if there are ὄντα (who could deny it?) it is because there is εἶναι; and the necessity of following a “method” in order to come to know. The very narrow limits of this article prevent us from dealing with the first question. On the other hand, we try to justify the second. The notion of path (= method) is fundamental in Parmenides (the notion, represented by 7 different words, appears 21 times in the recovered fragments of his Poem). Now, a way supposes a traveler, a guide and a goal to reach. According to the dichotomous scheme of his thought, there is for Parmenides a “good” path (traveled by a future philosopher, guided by the Heliads and the Goddess and whose goal is the truth) and a “bad” path (traveled by the mortals “who know nothing”, guided by a wandering thought and which advances without precise direction). These two paths are opposed in fr. 6, where the Goddess says that, unlike (δέ) the path of mortals, the κέλευθος of all that are, is παλίντροπος, for it has to necessarily reach the starting point, which is the κέλευθος πειθοῦς of verse 2.5. Fr. 5 (“It is common (ξυνόν δέ) for me from where (ὁππόθεν) I begin, for I shall return to it again” [πάλιν]) confirms this assumption.

Palavras-chave : method; path; Parmenides; Goddess; palíntropos.

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