https://www.superphysics.org/research/socrates/nature/ Recent content in On Nature by Parmenides on Superphysics Hugo en https://www.superphysics.org/research/socrates/nature/part-01/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/socrates/nature/part-01/ <p>Soon as the coursers that bear me and drew me as far as extendeth Impulse, guided me and threw me aloft in the glorious pathway, Up to the Goddess[3] that guideth through all things man that is conscious, There was I carried along, for there did the coursers sagacious, Drawing the chariot, bear me, and virgins preceded to guide them— Daughters of Helios leaving behind them the mansions of darkness— Into the light, with their strong hands forcing asunder the night-shrouds, While in its sockets the axle emitted the sound of a syrinx, Glowing, for still it was urged by a couple of wheels well-rounded, One upon this side, one upon that, when it hastened its motion.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/socrates/nature/part-02/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/socrates/nature/part-02/ <p>II. On Truth.[11]</p> <p>“Listen, and I will instruct thee—and thou, when thou hearest, shalt ponder— What are the sole two paths of research that are open to thinking. One path is: That Being doth be, and Non-Being is not: This is the way of Conviction, for Truth follows hard in her footsteps. Th’ other path is: That Being is not, and Non-Being must be; This one, I tell thee in truth, is an all-incredible pathway. For thou never canst know what is not (for none can conceive it), Nor canst thou give it expression, for one thing are Thinking and Being.</p>