Parmenides · Philosophy
Parmenides’ profound claim that ‘it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be’ - identifying the limits of thought with the limits of reality - and the great confrontation with Plato, who honoured ‘father Parmenides’ even as he overturned him.
You learned that Parmenides held that ‘it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be’ - that the limits of genuine thought are the limits of reality, so that what cannot be coherently thought (like not-being) cannot exist. Explain the identity of thinking and being in your own words.
Leads to Plato.
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