Parmenides · Philosophy
Parmenides’ revolutionary claim that ‘what is, is’ - that Being simply <em>is</em>, eternal and unchanging - and that reason, not the deceptive senses, is the only path to truth, launching metaphysics and the rigorous use of pure logic in philosophy.
You learned that Parmenides argued, by pure reason, that ‘what is, is’ and cannot not-be - that Being simply is , eternal and changeless - and that the senses, which show us change and plurality, deceive us. Explain Parmenides’ Way of Truth in your own words.
Leads to Heraclitus.
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