Parmenides, The Father of Metaphysics?
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Parmenides was born around 515 BC, predating Socrates by some 36 years. He is considered among the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers. Plato felt such a need to respond to Parmenides that he wrote an entire dialogue featuring the man while nearer our time, Martin Heidegger cites Parmenides as an influence. Referring to the ancient Greek philosophers, Gerd Van Riel writes that “all later philosophers will have to cope with the logic and conclusions of Parmenides.”
Most of Parmenides’s writing has been lost though we still have 154 lines of his poetical work, On Nature. Like many of the thinkers in those early days of philosophy, he tries to understand nature, that is, the world around them, so On Nature is a common title for philosophical works.
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In a world of opinions of interpretations upon interpretations of the handful of remaining fragments, few honor the work of Parmenedes as well as you.
@PhilosophicalBachelor
7 ай бұрын
That's so kind of you. I do think that Parmenides's essay is beautiful, I really love the first bits about his journey to the temple, I think it is really smart if we consider it to be allegorical.
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8 ай бұрын
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@olgapolka168
5 ай бұрын
18:42
Completely and utterly wrong. It's the other way around. P- is not a metaphysician. He is the quintessential scientist. The poem says, "Hey, guys. Quit your pointless speculations. Your elaborate metaphors are just wheel-spinning. They mean less than nothing. If you want to understand nature, study nature."
@PhilosophicalBachelor
4 ай бұрын
Interesting. If by science you mean observation/empiricism, don't you think it is quite the opposite of what he did? If by metaphysics you mean contemplating the "true" nature of things, don't you think that is what he did? Nonetheless, metaphysics isn't opposed to science. It tries to answer what science is unable to answer.
@kturkalo2129
4 ай бұрын
Not the opposite. Exactly as I said. "Trying to answer" is not the same as knowing that some answers can't be had with the information available. So try to find that information. Speculation should result in attempts to verify the speculation (experiment), not be taken as proof, just because I like the sound of it. P- was a scientist, with credits in astronomy, regarding at least 5 seminal discoveries, about the sun and moon, the morning/evening star, and the Earth. A life-long scientist (observer/empiricist) does not suddenly become a mystic regarding the nature of things. He continues to study what there IS, not what people think may exist. But another proof of what I say comes from his sidekick, Zeno, who invented all sorts of easily debunked 'paradoxes' to flummox the metaphorical-minded contemplators of the nature of things. Things, by their nature are 'things,' not metaphors, and it is possible to walk past a half-way point without regard to some weirdly artificial rule. My bet is that the two of them had many a good laugh of an evening over the wild, unsupported speculations of others, and about the mischief they caused in some poetic minds.@@PhilosophicalBachelor
@2009Artteacher
Ай бұрын
If your ego can take it, you are wrong, as you are taking Metaphysics to mean supernatural. As used by Aristoltel proper, metaphysics is science as introduced into philosophy in his book Metaphysics ( meaning from or after nature ). The movement of a seed of an oak to an oak tree through the four causes and effects, material, formal and final cause. As mentioned metaphysics in the video came after his time. though relevant to his work.