(Originally written September 5, 2006 in Book 10)
Classics of Philosophy
Louis Pojman
Parmenides
1. [B2] There are only two ways of thing: 1) the one is and it is not possible for it not to be. 2) what is not, is not and that it is right that it is not. We cannot know what is not.
2. [B6] Nothing cannot exist. Men are born incapable of really understanding this. They believe nothing and something as things that can be considered the same way.
3. [B7] Don't let common sense or habit force us to disagree with what is true. Let reason show us it is true.
4. [B8] Everything is one. Everything is uncreated, eternal, unchanging, and indestructible. It must be whole or not at all. It is one or noting. Out of nothing cometh nothing, ex nihilo nihil fit.
The one is not divisible because it is homogenous. There is no such thing as motion. It is necessarily motionless and unchangeable because it is one. Fate has made it one. There can be no change.
The Way of Opinion
[B8] (continued) Common sense tells us there are many things and things move. But this is wrong. Man's opinions should not surges you because they are fooled by mere appearances and do not understand the one.
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