Additionally, he reads the poems of Parmenides and Empedocles as esoteric and mystical texts, a hermeneutical perspective that, according to Kingsley, is both indicated by the textual and historical evidence and also provides the only way to solve many problems of interpretation and text criticism.
According to Kingsley, he interprets the poems of Parmenides and Empedocles as esoteric and mystical texts, a hermeneutical perspective that is supported by both textual and historical evidence. This approach is the only viable method for resolving numerous problems in interpreting and analyzing these texts.