Beginning with Being: Reading Parmenides from Plato to Heidegger

3 credits · Undergraduate

In this course, we shall stage an encounter between the two great thinkers - Plato and Heidegger - whose thought has often been thought to mark the ‘beginning’ and the ‘end’ of the Western philosophical tradition. Taking Parmenides’ pregnant insight (“Being and Thinking are the same”) as the poietic site of this encounter, we will ask what it still means to engage in philosophy today. FORMATS: Lecture