Parmenides
Being is — the Way of Truth
The philosopher who argued that change is impossible. His poem On Nature — a goddess reveals that Being is one, eternal, and unchanging, and that all apparent change is illusion — posed the fundamental challenge that Plato, Aristotle, and all subsequent metaphysics had to answer. Where Heraclitus said everything flows, Parmenides said nothing moves.
Key works
- On Nature~475 BC— Philosophical poem — the Way of Truth versus the Way of Seeming