Parmenides

tempting to discredit Parmenides as a mythologizer, but we should determine this not by the form of which he presents his ideas, but by the content of the poem. The subject matter of the poem is the inquiry into the true nature of reality, and the aim is to distinguish and investigate that which is, and that which is not (Parmenides, Fragments 2, 3) These are the two paths of which Parmenides describes, the “Path of Persuasion” and the “Indiscernible Track” respectively (Parmenides, Fragments…

Parmenides of Elea came into being during the time of the Pre-Socratics, however he would argue that he never actually came into being. He would also argue that he never perished from being. As Parmenides would have it, he still exists, and he will always exist, for nothing can be created or destroyed, because change is impossible. It seems illogical to conclude that Parmenides from the Pre-Socratics era exists, when we bear witness to birth and death on a regular occurrence. However,…

change, Parmenides believed that nothing changes. For Parmenides, there is no such thing as destruction and generation since such changes are apparent only . For Parmenides, everything is simply “is” or “is not”. We can understand from the thought of Parmenides that everything can be separated by understanding something by their “being” and by their “being not”. Parmenides introduced a world with opposing attributes. Consequently, Zeno of Elea would support and fortify these thoughts of…

Heraclitus and Parmenides both attempt to answer a seemingly simple but complex question about change: Is change real? Their answers lie in opposing sides of the discussion since Heraclitus believes change to be possible, while Parmenides denies the concept of change. Heraclitus believes that all things flow and are part of cycles in which they change, becoming what they are not. He also believes in a circular flow of change, explaining that some processes yield the same result with which it…

This brings us into Parmenides, where the main plot revolves around a dialectic attempting to grapple with the theory of forms. Continuing, the main argument is against monism in the sense that out of everything things can be alike or they can be unlike, but they cannot be both…

Reply to Objection 1: Parmenides, your notion of being is too strong. When it comes to the definition of being you provided, the idea that being cannot change is incorrect. Being can change while remaining the same, so the notion of something coming to be or passing away with change, would be incorrect, as I have stated in my response and given examples. Through potential and matter, nothing is coming to be or passing away, because it is still the same substance throughout. The form of the…

Parmenides argued that Homo sapiens are conscious beings and are constantly aware. We can state that something exists or it does not, that “what is is and what is not not” where is refers to existence, being and not refers to non-being and nothingness (pg xx). Plato concluded that there are two different realms, the realm of being and becoming. For Plato, the realm of being encompasses that things do not change, born or die whereas, the realm of becoming holds that things do change and perish.…

assume anything. Two examples of philosophers who did not make these naïve assumptions are Parmenides and Zeno of Elea. They held the belief that motion does not exist, and were ridiculed for such an outlandish stance. Zeno is best known for creating his four paradoxes of motion, but he actually created a number closer to 40 (Mastin). It is believed that these paradoxes were created by Zeno in defense of Parmenides. These four paradoxes have been argued throughout time, with some believing they…

or Empedocles? 5: Averroes 6: Pythagoras 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon or Timon? 9: Raphael,[14][15][16] Fornarina as a personification of Love[17] or Francesco Maria Della Revere? 10: Aeschines o Xenophon? 11: Parménides? (Leonardo da Vinci) 12: Sócrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangeló) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristóteles (Giuliano da Sangallo) 16: Diogenes of Sinope 17: Plotinus (Donatello?) 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante?) 19: Strabo…

recognizes the many layers of human development, as well as the intricate ambiguities that form the foundation of ambiguity and contradiction that complete the human identity. The whole novel takes a direct position in responding to Nietzsche and Parmenides as it deals with these themes and highlights the human struggle to find identity and individually amongst all of the conflicting forces. He makes it clear that while there is no definitive notions that define an entity, whether that be an…