PRESOCRATIC DIALECTICS
PRESOCRATIC DIALECTICS ANAXIMANDER, HERACLEITOS, PARMENIDES AND ZENO INTRODUCTION: The majority of the presocratic texts have been delivered to us from other authors in a fragmentary state, possibly simplified, misinterpreted and rather modified, the way these inferior thinkers understood them or the way they needed them for use in their writings. So we are obliged by our turn, to restore their altitude, either revealing their real meaning or supplementing the gaps of their fragmental delivery and naive interpretation. This practice though, causes a “dynamical creative violation” of these texts, which have been already violated and misinterpreted by the effort of inferior thinkers to "rationalize" their presocratic ambiguity (double-meaning). Modern interpreters should take this responsibility respectfully and if their effort is truly virtuous, the y will deserve a share of truth. This practice is neither new nor paradoxical, because all...