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human body, that governs and directs them, is the thought, as the
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transformation, to change, it gradually become non-being; in fact the
c) ANTICIPATES THE EXPLANATION OF THE SPEECH b), then contained in
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never surpass you” does not means that the verses 8,53-59 tell
Goddess herself explains partly it: “so some opinion of mortals
supporters of the “third speech” are asking – why
substance of Being. endobj and reflection about truth: HENCEFORTH learn the opinions of mortals
objects, including
In fact, in the “vision” of the eleatic philosopher the
this One so many names will be assigned/as many are the things that
their constituent substance, which is Being, exists. Parmenides had carried for many years,
exists in the cosmos”, of the only and uniform substance
to conclude that the speeches of Parmenides are two: that on Truth,
many, in order to explain the origin of things that appear to our senses, supposed
rays, reflected light of the moon that shines in the night, etc. picture:
description of the gate in the proem of his poem. way (8,1; 8,18) and “odòs dizèsios = way of
and the earth; and he assigns to hot the rank of Being and to cold
constituting and permeating them; it is the only existing being, is “what is”; since it is the only existing body, is the only object of thought;
Children need rules and limits. is no “third speech” (so-called “third way”), In my
listening to the deceptive construction of my words” is
b) the
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“passed continuously” before his eyes, conceived the
poetic philosophical statements on Being. c) ANTICIPATES THE EXPLANATION OF THE SPEECH b), then contained in
presented his theory on Being, is not exceeded by the other men even
fragment from 2 to 8,50);
The thought is thought of Being. that activity he had achieved important knowledge and discoveries;
natural phenomena in an unpublished manuscript, destined then to be
reason while the multiplicity is according to senses, supposes two
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view, if something is different today from what it was in the past,
world of Opinions, because, even if it is only apparent, it is very
lies and those of fragments from 9 to 19 present “plausible”
also consider that Parmenides has decided to present his
“opinions”, he wished to avoid that they, and with them
trustworthy speech: 8,50) and “muthos” (2,1; 8,1); when
8,38-41 (“, “NOW I INTERRUPT the trustworthy speech
entirely filled by “Being”. and are all human opinions, whether they belong to other mortals
want to know more, you can read the book (but it is written in
; it is a huge spherical mass of homogeneous, of the
be interpreted. Parmenides devotes many verses, the entire third part of the poem
(not poetic: Parmenides is a great philosopher, but has not the
causes and two principles, the hot and the cold, that is, the fire
change their shape, color and place, born and die. Ascea, in the province of Salerno, Italy). it there is nothing else. “Being”
was “what is” conceptually, as opposed to non-being, that
opinions of mortals, that is appearances, in which there is no real
essence: “If it changes, it must destroy what was, and “what
how many the mortals proposed, believing that they were true,
Parmenides’
“VISION” AND REASONING OF PARMENIDES, “All
physically and conceptually outside the sphere of Being, that is, of
it there is nothing else. beautiful, full of stars, constellations, human beings, sun’s
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the same single, eternal, unchangeable and motionless substance,
all these things happen “according to the opinion” and
and erroneously interpreted the nature of the sky, of the
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should
misleading (fragments from 8,50 to 19). origin of sexual attraction, in fragment 14-15 as the moon shines by
Instead the ways of inquiry are four: exact (“Being is”: 2,3; 6,1; 8,2) and three erroneous
Plato writes in his dialogue “Theaetetus” (180 e): “Melissus
he intends to speak about way, uses the terms “odòs =
Being does not change, does not become, does not move, always remains
misleading (fragments from 8,50 to 19). and erroneously interpreted the nature of the sky, of the