PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sextus Empiricus, Dazed, Monism
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The impossibility of understanding the universe: parmenides and. Zeno: wrote in verse like traditional greek poets, invoked divine authority, used logical argumentation to come to conclusion that our perceivable surroundings lack reality, parmenides. On nature ( peri phuse s: introduction: parmenides" ascent to the goddess, the choice: two ways of inquiry, the way of truth, the way of opinion. It is right that you learn all things both the unshaken heart of well-persuasive truth and the beliefs of mortals, in which there is no true trust. But nevertheless you will learn these too (sextus empiricus, against the mathematicians, 7. 111-114, and simplicius, commentary on. For neither can you know what is not (for it is not to be accomplished) nor can you declare it (proclus, commentary on plato"s timaeus, 1. 345. 18, and simplicius, commentary on aristotle"s physics, 116. 28). Two ways of inquiry: philosophical revolution because parmenides uses highly methodological argumentation, parmenides introduces two ways of inquiry for thinking:
