The adventure of philosophy began in Greece, where it was gradually developed by the ancient thinkers as a special kind of knowledge by which to explain the totality of things. In fact, the Greek language has always used the word "onta," "beings," to refer to things. At the end of the sixth century BCE, Parmenides wrote a poem to affirm his fundamental thesis upon which all philosophical systems should be based: that there "are" beings.
In "By Being, It Is," Nestor-Luis Cordero explores the richness of this Parmenidean thesis, which became the cornerstone of philosophy. Cordero's textual...

A collection of the papers (translated, where applicable) presented at the conference, each advancing the respective scholar's research on Parmenides and his Poem, "On Nature", often with far-reaching and sometimes controversial results.