Parmenides' famous quote urges people to question assumptions, challenge familiar beliefs and rely on reason rather than ...
Have you ever been in a situation that wasn't going so well, but rather than do something to change it, you told yourself, "Ah, it's not so bad. Maybe if I just sit tight it will get better by itself.
The question why the poem of Parmenides includes a detailed account of the origin and the order of the world that according to his ontology is deprived of truth, cannot be answered with certainty.
Our big think-piece for Christmas is a portrait of the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, by the doctor, writer and general polymath Raymond Tallis. Tallis believes that Parmenides's model of a ...
As John Palmer fairly observes, what is relevant to this question is not how Parmenides should be interpreted by us, but how he was interpreted by Plato, and the book makes a number of controversial ...