Abstract

FATTAL, Michel. Mythos and logos in Parmenides. arete [online]. 2009, vol.21, n.1, pp.9-34. ISSN 1016-913X.

Although Parmenides does not present a strongly negative connotation of the mythical discourse of the poetic tradition, as Xenophanes does, there is no less truth to the fact that we witness with him a true transmutation of the Homeric and Hesiodic discourse, especially regarding the complex problem of truth, deceit and verisimilitude. The philosophical originality of Parmenides lies not only in the elaboration of a logos that would, for the first time in Western Thought, embody the idea of a "personal critical reason", capable of “judging” the refutation pronounced by the authority of a “Master of Truth”, nor in the institution of a gnōmē (judgement) capable of choosing between things with more or less verisimilitude, but also in the fact of undertaking, long before Plato -and in a different manner than in the Sophist-, a reflection on truth and error that is guided by the question of the good and bad combinations, the good and bad separations.

Keywords : mythos; logos; gnm; truth; falsehood.

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