Parmenides
I have begun to notice a trend that is rising in our pre-Socratic philosophers, this can be observed in that their outlook on the world was one that was searching for something that was fundamental to all that was and is. For Heraclitus it was the flux and for Parmenides it is simply being. These modes of thought denote that there is some equality in all things, some characteristic that is similar for all. Parmenides explained this characteristic as simply the fact that all things that exist are similar because they exist.
If one assumes that existence is something that can never not be, a question arises. Where did everything come from in the beginning? How could something suddenly spring into being from nothing? Parmenides monism is extremely apparent in regards to this area. Parmenides believed that everything simply is. He also said that things that are being cannot understand not being because it is not something that they have experienced before. Even when......
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