
Review: Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet
Nature and the Nation
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Theory of parmenides is linked to pythagorean theology and orphic ideas. Parmenides said that if all things are one, then we must give up the idea that it takes different forms. The senses which present us a world of change and multiplicity are deceitful. From this time onwards, thinkers in whose hands philosophy made progress abandoned the istic hypothesis. We'll never be able to pass through the gates of day and night. So we'll always be bound in the world of things.
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