ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on Aristotle and the one Pre-Socratic who by common consent is the giant on the scene before the appearance of Socrates, namely Parmenides. He shows how Aristotle has done two things, getting Parmenides right on a key point, possibly the key point, in his epistemology, and being able to build something extraordinary of his own on the basis of it. The same might be said of the so-called 'arguments against motion', for the details of which we must rely on Aristotle; but the picture here is less clear. Aristotle had problems finding the teleology he sought in the activities of the nous of Anaxagoras, he must undoubtedly have found it in the noesis of Diogenes. On the reading of Parmenides that the author argues to be that of Aristotle, none of this is surprising.
