Parmenides

Parmenides - The Way of Truth and Opinion

Larmar Hicks

PHI/105

June 3rd, 2012

Elizabeth DaRosa

Parmenides - The Way of Truth and Opinion

The Philosophers before Socrates had many different views on how the world came into existence. I was trying to find a commonality in logic and reasoning among the philosophers, something that would draw me to believe what they saying, but could not. I am a Christian, and a strong believer in God. I believe that a God existed a created everything that we are and that around us. I believe in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Bible. That’s a whole other topic within the world of Philosophy. If I had to pick a philosopher in which I can best relate to, then it would be Parmenides. Why Parmenides? I believe that my God is that Truth, that reality, that one being that does not change.

Parmenides believed that things existed since the beginning. He believed that if things changed, it becomes something different. He also reasoned that nonbeing is different from being, but there is no such thing as nonbeing, so being does not change. He also reasoned that being is eternal, and it can not go out of existence. I believe that our God existed long before our time and that our existence was the result of mind acting on matter. The Bible says that God created the Heavens and Earth, by saying it into existence; it’s telling me that God used its mind to act on the void, or the matter that took up the space, and created the Universe. Parmenides views on motion also, are very compelling to me because a body seemed to be always at rest between to point. Maybe there is some type of force that causes us to move between to points. Our individual, or the length that makes up our bodies, are surely not in motion. If I were to take a step, then how is it that I’m able to get to a certain point? I just believe that it’s our mind acting on the matter, which causes our bodies to move to a specific point.

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