Parmenides' ReasoningSeptember 16, 1983Copyright © 1997 Property of Deborah K. Fletcher. All rights reserved.
"It is necessary to speak and think what is; for being is, but nothing is not. These things I bid you consider. For I hold you back from this first way of inquiry; but also from that way on which mortals knowing nothing wander, of two minds. For helplessness guides the wandering thought in their breasts; they are carried along deaf and blind alike, dazed, beasts without judgement, convinced that to be and not to be are the same and not the same, and that the road of all things is a bacward-turning one." Parmenides This form of reasoning, translated from the original Greek, is probably one of the first forms of reality based therapy (Peter Rabow), recognizing what is, and not what past influences may have contributed - concrete and tangible. The Cartesian philosophy parallels this form of reasoning, "I think, therefore, I am" (Rene Descartes). Please View and Sign My Guestbook © 1998-2000 Debbie Fletcher, joiya@tcia.net
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