Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
Continuing with guest Peter Adamson with "On Nature" (475 BCE).
We finally get to fragment 8, which describes why Being must be singular and eternal, given that the notion of Non-Being is nonsense. But how could we as individuals be asking these questions then? Does his "Way of Seeming" work to explain the appearances, as opposed to reality?
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End song: "Circle" by Gareth Mitchell, as discussed on Nakedly Examined Music #4.