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In Parmenides’ poem, there is a clear relationship between truth and justice. The “man who knows” and is just can see the paths of “is” and “is not.” The “is” path, known as the “path of Persuasion, accompanies Objective Truth.” According to the poem, one can not even see the objective truth without first seeking enlightenment and being just. This just man will try to understand the truth of justice.
The relationship is represented by the interaction between the “man who knows,” and the Goddess named Justice. The “man who knows,” guided by maidens, is carried down the path of Justice towards enlightenment, and on a chariot pulled by mares. The mares carry the man as far as his heart desires and the maidens, “Daughters of the Sun,” escort him after leaving the “House of Night for the light.” The man reaches the “gates of the paths of Night and Day” where the maidens coax Justice with gentle words and cunning persuasion. Justice, having found the man just, allows …show more content…
For example, 2 + 2 is 4 will always be true. They know that what-is will be whole, motionless, and endless. They know that whatever “is” can be known.
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In the poem, the Goddess mentions a second path of inquiry: “that it is not and necessarily must not be.” The Goddess mentions that this path is “wholly unthinkable, for neither could you know what-is-not (for that is impossible), nor could you point it out.” One could not even begin to describe this path of inquiry because there is nothing to describe.
The things people on this path know is nothing. The Goddess said, “The one on which mortals, knowing nothing, wander.” What they know does not exist. This path is self-serving and based on their own opinions of what they want something to be. They repeatedly confuse being and not being, changing their subjective belief to fit their narrative. These people believe physical is eternal and do not even have a sense of what is.
In Parmenides’ poem, there is a clear relationship between truth and justice. The “man who knows” and is just can see the paths of “is” and “is not.” The “is” path, known as the “path of Persuasion, accompanies Objective Truth.” According to the poem, one can not even see the objective truth without first seeking enlightenment and being just. This just man will try to understand the truth of justice.
The relationship is represented by the interaction between the “man who knows,” and the Goddess named Justice. The “man who knows,” guided by maidens, is carried down the path of Justice towards enlightenment, and on a chariot pulled by mares. The mares carry the man as far as his heart desires and the maidens, “Daughters of the Sun,” escort him after leaving the “House of Night for the light.” The man reaches the “gates of the paths of Night and Day” where the maidens coax Justice with gentle words and cunning persuasion. Justice, having found the man just, allows …show more content…
For example, 2 + 2 is 4 will always be true. They know that what-is will be whole, motionless, and endless. They know that whatever “is” can be known.
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In the poem, the Goddess mentions a second path of inquiry: “that it is not and necessarily must not be.” The Goddess mentions that this path is “wholly unthinkable, for neither could you know what-is-not (for that is impossible), nor could you point it out.” One could not even begin to describe this path of inquiry because there is nothing to describe.
The things people on this path know is nothing. The Goddess said, “The one on which mortals, knowing nothing, wander.” What they know does not exist. This path is self-serving and based on their own opinions of what they want something to be. They repeatedly confuse being and not being, changing their subjective belief to fit their narrative. These people believe physical is eternal and do not even have a sense of what is.