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The Presocratics – Parmenides and Zeno

Parmenides.jpgBust of Parmenides

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Hans Georg Gadamer, an important 20th century Germany hermeneutical philosopher, emphasizes … the importance of Parmenides and the Eleatics for Plato’s later theory of the forms. Like Plato … Parmenides, as well as Zeno and other Eleatics, dismisses sense experience as a source of truth. Continue reading The Presocratics – Parmenides and Zeno