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The Enduring Significance of Parmenides - Unthinkable Thought (Hardcover)
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The Enduring Significance of Parmenides - Unthinkable Thought (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy
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Parmenides of Elea is widely regarded as the most important of the
Presocratic philosophers and one of the most influential thinkers
of all time. He is famous, or notorious, for asserting that change,
movement, generation and perishing are illusions arising from our
senses, that past and future do not exist, and that the universe is
a single, homogeneous, static sphere. This picture of the world is
not only contrary to the experience of every conscious moment of
our lives, it is also unthinkable, since thoughts themselves are
events that come into being and pass away. In this important new
book, Raymond Tallis critically examines Parmenides conclusions and
argues that, although his views have had a huge influence, they are
in fact the result of a failure to allow for possibility, for
what-might-be, which neither is nor is not. Without possibility,
there is neither truth nor falsehood. Tallis explores the limits of
Parmenides ideas, his influence on Plato and, through him,
Aristotle and finally, why Parmenides is still relevant today.
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