Parmenides uses a poem to prove the concept of unity that is the universe and our reality. The poem begins by showing a common person being chosen and given a sacred thing free of corruption, that thing being Truth. The form of Truth is something called what-is; it is free of opinions and errors. It validates Parmenides concepts of unity, that the world is non-changing and that ideas of becoming and removing are false. How empty space is not possible, and how something cannot be simply created all show the idea of unity. The idea of not many but one whole is unique for Parmenides, it creates a concept of reality that is free from time, space, and individuality and even ideas of life and death. Parmenides uses the poem to show that the universe does not exist as separate things based on our senses, but rather our logic will deduce an idea of uncorrupted universal unity of all things. All things are one and exists as is.
To illustrate Parmenides claims, he uses a poem. It begins with a young man named Kouros who is escorted to the “gates of the roads of Night and Day” (28B1, 11). Upon entering, the character meets with the goddess of Night; who has brought him, not by ill will but rather, to teach him of Truth. She claims that she will teach him two things, that of Truth and that of the …show more content…
The universe is a concept of one piece. Sense perception is a false way of understanding the universe, and instead one should rely on their logic to understand how reality is. The universe is not changing. It cannot be added to or taken from. The reality of our world is one whole piece where all things are in some way or form already made. Things like time and space, life and death, and good and evil are concepts generated by persuasion, and sense-perception and thus not logically possible. The pome is a tool used to state that all things exists in a concept of a completed whole, and this whole is our
To illustrate Parmenides claims, he uses a poem. It begins with a young man named Kouros who is escorted to the “gates of the roads of Night and Day” (28B1, 11). Upon entering, the character meets with the goddess of Night; who has brought him, not by ill will but rather, to teach him of Truth. She claims that she will teach him two things, that of Truth and that of the …show more content…
The universe is a concept of one piece. Sense perception is a false way of understanding the universe, and instead one should rely on their logic to understand how reality is. The universe is not changing. It cannot be added to or taken from. The reality of our world is one whole piece where all things are in some way or form already made. Things like time and space, life and death, and good and evil are concepts generated by persuasion, and sense-perception and thus not logically possible. The pome is a tool used to state that all things exists in a concept of a completed whole, and this whole is our