TRUTH IN PARMENİDES' POEM
PARMENİDES’İN ŞİİRİNDE HAKİKAT

Author : Tufan ÇÖTOK
Number of pages : 152-163

Abstract

Parmenides is the philosopher who inquired into the Truth deliberatively for the first time in the history of philosophy. He gave an ontological ground for the concept, which is expressed as “telling the truth” and treated within a moral framework in the works of Homer and Hesiod, and makes it the primary object of inquiry. In doing this, insead of relying on the sense knowledge, he determines his starting point as intellectual knowledge and through his reasoning he gives the first examples of logic. The remaining 150 lines of him point out that there are three ways to follow for reason, one of which ends up with Truth, and abstaining from error is possible. The way of Truth in question indicates that all we can say about Being is that Being is One. Afterwards Plato and Aristotle had to contend his thoughts together with Heraclitus' concept of logos.

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