On the Order of Nature: For a Phylosophical Ascesis (Aurea Vidya Collection) - Softcover

Parmenides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931406103 ISBN 13: 9781931406109

Publisher: Aurea Vidya, 2011

Synopsis

With PARMENIDES began what is called, in more specific terms, true Philosophy.

The Eleatic, and his Poem, constitute a beacon whose light illumined Plato and even Aristotle, and consequently all the philosophers that followed.

Parmenides laid down several fundamental philosophical principles:
1. The Being as foundation of all the existent
2. The principle of identity, Being is identical to itself
3. The principle of non-contradiction
4. The principle of a-temporality or eternal present
5. An initiatory philosophical vision of an experimental order
This vision was taken up by Plato and others down to Plotinus and beyond, while staying in the Classical Greek tradition.

For Parmenides the primary aim is the research for the ultimate Truth, and he is: he who has introduced the mortals to the straight path of wisdom, and:
«...here immediately through the gate the maidens steered the chariot and the mares straight onto the road.

:The Goddess kindly welcomed me and took my right hand in hers and addressing me she uttered so:
Oh young companion, led by the mares and immortal charioteers, you come to our home: rejoice, for no adverse Moira sent you to travel this path which is far from the way traveled by men but Temis and Dike »

The transition from one state of consciousness to another higher one, in a completely objectivistic society, is a revolutionary event, and also of this consists Parmenides greatness and his importance for contemporary life.

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About the Author:

The date of PARMENIDES birth is uncertain but, according to the indications of Apollodoros, it can be placed between the sixth and the fifth centuries B.C. Parmenides was born in Magna Graecia, in Elea (today s Velia) located on the coast of Campania south of Paestum, in Italy, into a family of noble lineage and quite well off.

It is known that he governed and gave very good laws to his city (in those days, as it happened, cities were governed by Philosophers), and every year the Eleans pledged their loyalty to those laws.

The Pythagorean Ameinias introduced Parmenides to the peace of contemplation, and because of this relationship, Parmenides himself is considered a Pythagorean.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

The Way that leads to Being
Being
Introduction to the Proem

ON THE ORDER OF NATURE
Fragment 1, Proem
Fragments 2 to 7
Preamble to Fragment 8
Fragment 8
Introduction to the world of appearances
Fragments 8(contd.) to 19
Notes to the Fragments

Bibliographic Reference
Glossary
Raphael: Unity of Tradition --From the Book

Editor's Biography

RAPHAEL is author and Master in the Western Metaphysical Tradition as well as the Vedanta. For over 35 years, he has written several books on the pathway of Non-duality (Advaita). He has also translated and commented a number of key Vedanta texts from the original Sanskrit.
His entire work a conscious reunification of Western and Eastern Traditions into Unity of Tradition.
Founder of the Ashram Vidya Order, Raphael is now dedicating himself entirely to the spiritual practice. He lives in a hermitage connected to the ashram and devotes himself completely to a vow of silence. --From the Book

Editor's Biography

RAPHAEL is author and Master in the Western Metaphysical Tradition as well as the Vedanta. For over 35 years, he has written several books on the pathway of Non-duality (Advaita). He has also translated and commented a number of key Vedanta texts from the original Sanskrit.
His entire work a conscious reunification of Western and Eastern Traditions into Unity of Tradition.
Founder of the Ashram Vidya Order, Raphael is now dedicating himself entirely to the spiritual practice. He lives in a hermitage connected to the ashram and devotes himself completely to a vow of silence. --From the Book

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurea Vidya
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1931406103
• ISBN 13: 9781931406109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138
• Editor: Raphael (Āśram Vidyā Order)