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Ideas of Parmenides, by Text
[Greek, c.515 - 445 BCE, Born in Elea, nr Naples. Taught by Xenophanes. Founder of Eleatic school. Zeno of Elea his pupil. Revered visitor to Athens in old age.]
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p.13
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There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water [Aristotle]
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p.24
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22918
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What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]?
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p.28
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555
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People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement [Aristotle]
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p.78
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1509
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The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing [Simplicius]
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p.91
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20900
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Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being [Aristotle]
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p.192
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5115
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It is feeble-minded to look for explanations of everything being at rest [Aristotle]
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p.241
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226
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The one is without any kind of motion
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p.357
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Parmenides at least saw Being as the same as Nous, and separate from the sensed realm [Plotinus]
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p.384
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1791
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He was the first person to say the earth is spherical [Diog. Laertius]
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p.384
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1792
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He taught that there are two elements, fire the maker, and earth the matter [Diog. Laertius]
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p.385
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1794
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He was the first to discover the identity of the Morning and Evening Stars [Diog. Laertius]
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p.385
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3058
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Only reason can prove the truth of facts
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p.497
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The void can't exist, and without the void there can't be movement or separation [Aristotle]
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A24
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p.62
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1505
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Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many [Aristotle]
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A25
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p.61
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1504
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Something must be unchanging to make recognition and knowledge possible [Aristotle]
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A28
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p.56
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1502
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Parmenides was much more cautious about accepting ideas than his predecessors [Simplicius]
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A46
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p.65
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1506
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Parmenides treats perception and intellectual activity as the same [Theophrastus]
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B02
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p.42
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444
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The first way of enquiry involves necessary existence
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B02
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p.42
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445
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The realm of necessary non-existence cannot be explored, because it is unknowable
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B06
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p.58
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1503
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There is no such thing as nothing
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B08 ll.?
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p.43
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448
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No necessity could produce Being either later or earlier, so it must exist absolutely or not at all
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B08 ll.?
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p.43
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447
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Being must be eternal and uncreated, and hence it is timeless
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B08 ll.?
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p.44
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449
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Being is not divisible, since it is all alike
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B08 ll.?
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p.44
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452
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All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth
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B08 ll.?
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p.44
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450
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Necessity sets limits on being, in order to give it identity
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B08 ll.?
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p.44
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451
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Thinking implies existence, because thinking depends on it
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B08 ll.?
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p.44
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453
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Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another
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