In the previous issues we talked about the philosophical thought of the ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides, Parmenides told us how we can know things and discover the truth, then the way is "the existence of the being, the non-existence does not exist", Parmenides told us that if we admit that "the non-existent exists, the existents do not exist", this road can not learn anything, because non-existence can neither be perceived by us, nor can it be known by us, nor can it be thought by us.
Why, then, did parmenides think like parmenides appear during this period? We might as well ask, "Did Parmenides' thought fall from heaven?" Did he himself come out of nothing, out of thin air? "Our inner ideals tell us that the answer is not so, and today we will analyze the origin and background of Parmenides' thought.
The Colosseum
The earliest philosopher of ancient Greece, also known as the "father of philosophy", Thales believed that the source of all things was water, and he believed that the origin of all things originated from water, and returned to water after a series of processes such as growth and destruction. Thales believes that the starting point of all things originating from water is mainly based on the observation of daily experience, and the growth of animals and plants is inseparable from water, and he simply believes that water is the condition for the existence of living things, and it is the starting point for them to produce things.
Embryonic development process
Thales's student and friend Alaximand believed that if something was gone, it could not be anything else, so that the origin of all things was to give rise to other things, then it must be nothing. Therefore, Aracsimand believed that "Logus" was the source of all things, which could also be called "indeterminate".
Athens in ancient Greece
Alaximenes was a student of Araksmund, and his ideas integrated the ideas of the first two teachers, believing that "qi" is the source of all things, that qi has both the physical characteristics of water and the characteristics of "indeterminate", that when the gas is sparse, fire is formed, when the gas is aggregated, wind is formed, wind condenses to form water, and water gathers to form ice.
Ancient Greek Doric stigma
Heraclitus believed that fire is the source of all things in the world, all things are born of fire, and then return to fire, fire is the source of vitality for the change and destruction of all things; Heraclitus believes that everything in the world is in flux, and "man cannot step into the same river twice" is the most obvious embodiment of Heraclitus's thought.
Pythagoras, an important mathematician and philosopher in ancient Greece, together with his followers, founded the political and religious group of the "Pythagorean School", and Pythagoras discovered the Pythagorean theorem, which in China has another name, the Pythagorean theorem. Pythagoras believed that numbers are all things, all things are numbers, and the nature of things is determined by a certain quantitative relationship, and all things form a harmonious unity according to a certain quantitative relationship. In this way, Pythagoras's views are much more advanced than those of the previous thinkers, why do you say so? Numbers are the result of our abstraction, there is no physical number in the world, but everything that exists in the world can be measured by numbers.
Earlier we introduced the main thinkers before Parmenides, now we want to invite the protagonist out, Parmenides, after thinking about the thoughts of his predecessors, believes that the first thing to know the world and find the origin of the world is the problem of direction, and the problem of the object of knowledge, that is, "the existence of the being, the non-existence does not exist", Parmenides tells us not to know the natural world only through the senses, but to grasp the world through our thoughts, to find the origin of the world.
From the history of the development of thought, we can see that no kind of thought comes out of thin air, and the birth of ideas is the result of the criticism and inheritance of predecessors, so that there is no distinction between high and low and mature and naïve in thought, and some are only the limitations of the times, just like those people in the "cave", most people are bound, and we who can take the lead in breaking the shackles are called "guides".
Stonehenge
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