PARMENIDES

PARMENIDES BELIEFS

• He was a metaphysical monist
• He had three paths of inquiry
• "Either it is or it is not"-parmenides

THE PATH OF PERSUASION

• Every thing is as it is, it is impossible for it not to be
• He means that it is impossible for anything we see to be not real
• It goes along with objective truth

THE PATH WHICH IS WHOLLY UNTHINKABLE

• Parmenides believed that you could not know what is not
• "It is not and it necessarily must not be"-Parmenides
• You could not point out what is not there

THE PATH OF MORTALS

• It restrains your thought from the path of inquiry
• Nothing can come from nothing
• It must fully be or be not at all

MY THOUGHTS

• I Think Parmenides is a very open minded philosopher
• I believe you could say Parmenides moulded Plato
• Parmenides was a great teacher