Feb 17, 2022 09:50 PM
(This post was last modified: Feb 17, 2022 10:02 PM by C C.)
Parmenides (a song & dance) ... https://youtu.be/QiVlb8u1voQ
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QiVlb8u1voQ
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INTRO: Parmenides of Elea was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in the fifth century B.C.E. He is considered the founder of Ontology (the field of philosophy dealing with the nature of being), and is the first known philosopher to offer purely deductive arguments.
Dancing & choreography by Professor Barbara Gail Montero.
TRANSCRIPT:
Being cannot be born nor can it die.
Neither can it increase or multiply,
For becoming would require
Having existed prior,
Since something nothing cannot generate.
Being cannot possibly endure change,
For if one aspect were to rearrange,
What was once is now destroyed,
And what now is comes from the void.
The rules of being this would violate.
Says Parmenides:
There are two possibilities.
Whatever is, is necessarily,
And what is not cannot be.
Says Parmenides.
Parmenides' conclusion
Is that motion's an illusion.
That's what this all appears to indicate.
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RELATED: What is a block universe? ..... Time in a block universe
"There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it." --The Time Machine, H.G. Wells (1895)
"Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling upward along the life line of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time." --Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Hermann Weyl (1927)
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INTRO: Parmenides of Elea was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in the fifth century B.C.E. He is considered the founder of Ontology (the field of philosophy dealing with the nature of being), and is the first known philosopher to offer purely deductive arguments.
Dancing & choreography by Professor Barbara Gail Montero.
TRANSCRIPT:
Being cannot be born nor can it die.
Neither can it increase or multiply,
For becoming would require
Having existed prior,
Since something nothing cannot generate.
Being cannot possibly endure change,
For if one aspect were to rearrange,
What was once is now destroyed,
And what now is comes from the void.
The rules of being this would violate.
Says Parmenides:
There are two possibilities.
Whatever is, is necessarily,
And what is not cannot be.
Says Parmenides.
Parmenides' conclusion
Is that motion's an illusion.
That's what this all appears to indicate.
- - - - -
RELATED: What is a block universe? ..... Time in a block universe
"There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it." --The Time Machine, H.G. Wells (1895)
"Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling upward along the life line of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time." --Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Hermann Weyl (1927)
