The Enduring Significance of Parmenides: Unthinkable Thought

by Raymond Tallis

Parmenides of Elea is widely regarded as the most important of the Presocratic philosophers and one of the most influential thinkers of all time. He is famous, or notorious, for asserting that change, movement, generation and perishing are illusions arising from our senses, that past and future do not exist, and that the universe is a single, homogeneous, static sphere. This picture of the world is not only contrary to the experience of every conscious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082649952X
• ISBN13: 9780826499523
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"