Parmenides
• Being, the One, Is and Becoming and change are illusions.
Philosophy: Parmenides
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KD McMahon
• Parmenides creates a radical distinction between ________ and
_____________ and __________ and ____________.
• The Way of Truth is ___________________ to the Way of Opinion
of most men (ie: that there is change and plurality).
• Parmenides exceeds Thales and Heraclitus whose theories
required that the senses be exceeded. How? ____________
_______________________________________________________
____________________________________.
• This does not make Parmenides an Idealist since he believes that
the One was actually ____________. He was a ______
______________________.
• Parmenides asserts “__________.” This means that Reality exists,
and cannot not be.
 If being is an object of thought or speech than it can be, but
if it can be it is. Why? ________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________.
 Something does not come into being– for if it arises out of
being it already is. It does not come out of nonbeing since
__________________________. Therefore it never came
into being but simply _____. Change, becoming and
movement are impossible. _______.
 It is complete and cannot be _________________. Why?
To divide it would require that it be divided by something
other than itself. This is not possible because besides
_________________________.
 Parmenides regarded It as ____________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________.
Philosophy: Parmenides
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KD McMahon