How Parmenides laid the foundations for Western Civilization

Parmenides is often overlooked as a philosopher but without the ideas of this pre-Socratic, we’d likely be living in a very different world.

Paddy Murphy
Thought Thinkers
Published in
4 min readNov 18, 2023

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from: englishcounsellingonline.com, made with MidJourney

Parmenides of Elea (c. 515–445 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Elea, a Greek colony in southern Italy.

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