The Origins of Metaphysics - How Parmenides was the First and Last Prophet of the One Being

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10:45 Just like Descartes and his mystical dreams that gave birth to "la raison". Also, the whole ascent/descent and a chariot, does not remind you of Mer................?

[@aminrodriguez4707]

Again, cogito ergo sum 13:49, Descartes......so odd, Thinking IS being.

[@beepboop204]

in philosophy grad school i convinced a professor to do a one-on-one reading course with him on Heidegger's Parmenides. im a Heidegger nerd and also a Parmenides and Heraclitus nerd

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[@zacharycurrie3708]

This is definitely one of your more difficult episodes, if not the most difficult one I've watched. I appreciate the effort you put into translating the argument into formal modal logic. I also appreciate the discussion of the issues surrounding existential predication, which definitely requires multiple rewatches. Your channel is on esoteric topics but I don't think anyone on KZbin is really doing philosophy like you do. Thank you!

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

It's tough but I think the formalization of the argument helps to see it's strengths and weaknesses. FWIW, I don't think it's sound but is valid.

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Everything is difficult at first. Russell's 'History of Western Philosophy'' is imperfect in many ways - the chapter on Nietzsche is scandalously bad - BUT it is really useful for getting a sense of ''the big picture''. Even for post-docs its worth re-visiting if you want a quick, fairly clear and (usually) accurate rap-sheet. After dipping into that, the Stanford online Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the next port of call.

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[@MarcVL1234]

Ever read Plato's Parmenides? It's unusual for having the character Socrates as a learner, & Parmenides in the role Socrates usually plays. I think it's the densest, hardest to read of all Plato's dialogues.

[@M0U53B41T]

Sometimes I dream of works being discovered in places like Herculaneum and we can read lost works of Heraclitus or Parmenades

[@joshuavanderplaats]

Parminides is BY FAR the most penetrating person of the ancient world. I become almost giddy every time someone discusses him. Because it seems as if no one does. And he embodies, paradoxically, the treatment which the goddess herself endures: Ignorance by “being” ignored. God and Goddess are one. Night and Day are one. The one defines the other, without the other there is nothing to define. As Lao Tzu has said, “Naming is the origin of all particular things.” Excellent, Dr. Sledge. Excellent.

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[@ruthbennett7563]

What a beautiful comment. I thank you for writing it so that I shouldn’t have to repeat it in a less eloquent manner.

[@Eman_Puedama]

​@@ruthbennett7563 Strictly speaking, if he hadn't written it, you wouldn't be repeating.

[@charlesedwards5333]

I totally don’t get it and very much want to. Is Parmenides right ? Can that be demonstrated?

[@joshuavanderplaats]

@@charlesedwards5333 Your desire whether to probe and ask if he was right will carry you a long way. I will try to find an excellent video that may help you.

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[@YonatanZunger]

"The Goddess in the House of Night" would be an excellent title for a prog-rock album, and it would go well with the right kind and quantity of drugs to make Parmenides' revelation make sense. That was great fun.

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Definitely getting prog vibes !

[@lavnlvas]

I'm gonna have to review the lyrics of Blue Oyster Cult's "Spy in the House of the Night" to see if Sandy Perlman was referencing Parmenides... I wouldn't put it past him.

[@Hyrinm]

@@lavnlvas Haha, i thought just the same.

[@off6848]

You don’t need drugs look up Theoria Apophasis metaphysics he explains everything with simplex hyper rationality which is the way it’s supposed to be understood it’s the opposite of complex

[@greatexpectations6577]

I will have to rewatch this

[@LenaFerrari]

First time I'm proud of understanding 10% of a video

[@rysler]

Same. I really enjoyed not understanding it.

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that means progress!

[@EzekielsBones]

Someone (you) Once (and only Once ) upon the non existent no beginning of Time “Know Thyself” forgetting the illusion of conditioning and separateness My muddled manic take

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You had me from “deep introverted meditation.”

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Definitely, that hit me hard..

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i can not stop rewatching, this was really cool !

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[@CJusticeHappen21]

Man, I feel like I just jumped in the deep-end of the pool without understanding anything about swimming, water, or breathing.

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an Awesome discourse Dr. Sledge. Thank you very much for the food for (additional) Thought. Unti next time, Have a Great day

[@lapurta22]

Well thank you Dr. Justin for bending my mind into a pretzel with this one. I've come to expect nothing less from your presentations. That's why I love them so. But this one takes the cake, and it may take weeks to work the kinks out. Or maybe I will just think this is the being and ruminate on the truth of that.

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[@Maddz-Thee-Bee]

Wow, incredible video! Strikingly similar to Advaita Vedanta, I didn't know that anything like that existed in western philosophy that wasn't incredibly obscurantist, or some form of qualified non-duality. Very impressive to see absolute unqualified non-duality so long ago in the western world, with logical deductions to back it up.

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Parmenides was a material monist not a non-dualist

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@@TheEsotericaChannela talk on that distinction would greatly be appreciated. They seem to have some overlap Thank you for these videos

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I always love your videos, but this is by far my new favourite. "the thinking of Being had become a scandal, an ontological horror" ! I've felt that horror contemplating being and I loved hearing it in your words. Your prose are unparalleled.

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[@jicajacobsonkimbreaux]

Fantastic! It's curious to consider how this thinking of being arose (either independently or alongside) the eastern traditions... Would this then be the total inverse of the vedantic approach (where the true self/being is realized as distinct from mind/thought), or is it rather the exact same thing where "thinking of being" is simply another way of expressing the focused state of mindfulness of inner being/the self?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks - There's no evidence of any 'eastern' influence on Parmenides but I can't speak on Vedanta as I'm no expert there.

[@Adrian-vk5xl]

Good question.. I thought the same, does this go down the ‘I think therefore I am’ line or is thought/logic in this context referring to connecting with consciousness (being)…

[@gnomikon7836]

Exactly because the True self is realized as distinct from mind, Parmenides is not opposite Vedanta, but on the same line. Reality as a whole cannot be understood intellectually. The intellect can only grasp parts of it at a time, but each part, and even the sum of the parts, doesn't even scratch the surface of Reality, which is whole, all-encompasing, boundless, abythos, and who can look into the abyss? Therefore it's paradoxically the Ultimate Being in Parmenides and Reality in Vedanta, but also a big No-thing, Ayin, Ayin Sof, because Being Itself without any clothes on it, what would you call it? You just can't name it or understand it in any way.

[@danielmontilla1197]

That's a question for the perennialists! Honestly, it's hard not to see their "essential Truth" when you compare Parmenides' and Advaita Vedanta's monism. Brahman and Absolute Being as beckoning of a primordial metaphysical Single Source is, at least, a very curious notion that's worth exploring.

[@rutha6260]

@@Adrian-vk5xl I actually said it out loud listening to the video.

[@DannMcN]

This is by far my favorite episode. I absolutely love the topic of Parmenides' thought. You did such an excellent job covering this topic. I just got done reading a book about Plotinus and the Presocratics and wanted to share a related take: Plotinus read Parmenides' Being as the Plotinian Nous.

[@Robb3348]

are you asserting that Plotinus did indeed read Parmenides' Being as the Plotinian Nous? or just suggesting that possible interpretation of Parmenides?

[@DannMcN]

@Robb3348 I've taken the concept as described in the book "Plotinus and the Presocratics" by Giannis Stamatellos. Here's an excerpt from which I derived my comment. "In particular, Parmenides’ ontology and terminology are in the background of Plotinus’ metaphysics of Intellect, the Second Hypostasis of Being, and Plotinus acknowledges Parmenides as the Presocratic philosopher who introduced the intelligibility, oneness, unity, indestructibility, uniqueness, impassability, and eternal timelessness of Being. Plotinus is not only aware of and uses Parmenides’ terminology and concepts but also interprets, systematizes, and develops his Eleatic philosophy within the context of his own Neoplatonic system. It is significant that Plotinus de-parts from the traditional philosophical line of Parmenides and the post-Parmenidean thinkers on the priority of Being and the denial of its creation from non-Being. Within Plotinus’ system of the three Hypostases, Being is secondarily produced from the One, which is frequently expressed as non-Being in terms of its supra-transcendence beyond Being and Intelligence"

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[@MichaelYoder1961]

This is interesting philosophy. The Hindus and Taoists have similarly complicated thoughts about who is thinking the thought? What is feeling the feelings? Are the feelings just feeling and the thoughts just thinking? Wonderful episode! Thanks, Justin.

[@Tolu349]

That's what I was thinking, a lot of these ideas are explored in Taoism, in fact it almost sounds like he is trying to explain the Tao in a sense. However he does mentions in the video that this was the first time these thoughts were explored in the West. Wonderful video though

[@thatchinaboi1]

@@Tolu349 That is because Parmenidean Ontology and Metaphysics is actually an expression of Dialectical Monism, just as Taoist philosophy and Advaita Vedanta are expressions of Dialectical Monism. The main and significant difference between Parmenides and all other philsophers, mystics, and spiritual teachers is that he used Logic and Pure Reason to demonstrate how his conclusions for Dialectical Monism are Logically Irrefutable.

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@@thatchinaboi1Yes it is a perennial philosophy/religion found all across the world

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Ask a neuroscientist instead sometime.

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The Vedanta.

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Thanks for this episode. I read the Kingsley book you mentioned a few years back and was mostly lost - I will try it again after rewatching your video and reading other stuff on your reading list.

[@alainturbide5545]

Dr. Sledge. Thank you so much for your learned and (at times) hilarious insight into the complexities of Parmenides' philosophy. The necessary verbal gymnastics alone made me chuckle. Even so, I was most impressed by your encapsulation of the arguments and issues involved.

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[@dragosavo]

When I was a teenager and after a profound reality shattering experience - hash oil assisted - I would swear I was channeling the same disorienting message on reality as Parmenides. Deeper and deeper down the proverbial rabbit hole and I couldn't shut up about it. It went on for weeks. My parents were so frightened by this they brought me to the hospital where the friendly psychiatrist sedated and drugged back into correct think. I pretended to cooperate and believe them but there was no going back. I wish I could repeat what I experienced/knew but it was somehow both terrifying and liberating. It also felt obvious. I am sure others know what I am talking about.

[@DeusExNihilo]

Yep. Had a simmilar experience with edibles. Threw me into a deep existential crisis for months.

[@sariahmarier42]

I mentioned my experience (one of them anyway) in a separate comment. You might check it out. *No drugs involved in mine tho. Brain injury instead. And mine lasted on and off for over a year.

[@dannahbanana11235]

I've had some similar psychedelic assisted experiences. You really can't explain it sufficiently to most people who haven't felt it. At least I can't. Parmenides did a pretty good job. My life really has never been the same, for the better. Existence means something completely new to me now.

[@bisexial_disaster2795]

I've had a similar religious experience although it didn't last nearly as long since it was just a light meditative trance and not aided by medication or anything, but watching this video reminded me of that state of thinking and I'm considering learning how to meditate a little bit fuller until mind altering with assistance is more feasible with my situation as I might be prone to full blown psychosis lmao

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We have a type of familial TLE epilepsy, and so I have had multiple experiences like this throughout my life - both in provoked and unprovoked trance states as a child, then later with psychoactive assistance during college, and several times after that during OBEs and finally now I can get there with deep meditation. It can absolutely lead to prolonged existential crisis, if one isn't careful or emotionally regulated, but I've learned to be thankful for my rather slippery conscious awareness. Paired with a sharp academic mind/focus and careful attention to maintaining mind/body balance, it can be a wonderful tool for accessing greater meta-physical awareness. People will still look at you crazy if you start trying to explain the toroidal universe, but who cares. 😂❤️

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I love these introductions to foundational individuals/schools of philosophy from the ancient world. Most folks do not realize how much they effect the ways we think and behave to this very day, as the threads run through our cultural and intellectual history. You did a great job with a difficult subject. I’ve read/listened to numerous lectures on Parmenides and I’m not sure I truly understand the argument he is putting forth, but you made it as clear as anyone could. You are truly doing Being’s work, Sir! I’d love to see more like this!

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Oh, I forgot to mention-formalizing his arguments was a nice touch-above and beyond! Thanks Dr. Sledge!

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[@Pressure_23]

Excellent. Probably the best intro from the reading list is Kingsley’s Reality. He’s a proper classical scholar who wrote a standard academic text on Parmenides with lots of fresh archaeological and linguistic evidence, and then proceeded to actually do the exercises hinted at in the poem and became something of a full on mystic. Very exciting if you like your perennialist western transcendentalism with a good solid foundation in philosophy. I for one think the axial age Greeks were into some seriously mind bending thought, likely with both a decent intercultural exchange (“the Greeks are always children”) and some serious inheritance from the Bronze Age. Both which can be argued with a straight face, even if the academy will look at you askance.

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I translated the fragments for an edition some years ago. It was mesmerising.

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nice

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This is an extraordinary video, probing grounds in philosophy which the discipline is only grasping around the edges at at the moment. Well done and thank you.

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This is a great video! I'm afraid I'm too much a lover of process. I jokingly say that philosophy starts with Heraclitus and that Parmenides is when it went wrong

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Intriguing. Now smack me on the nose if I'm totally off the beaten path but I smell some of Mishima's musing in this, namely his perception of words being corrosive and truth lying in that liminal space between the self and reality, with death, the only identifiable stasis and unity perceived by us, being the ultimate manifestation of it. I'm still chewing on Sun and Steel but for whatever reason, perhaps just my own misunderstanding, this gives me the same feelings as it does, it strikes the same chord. Really nutty stuff overall, a whole lot to digest and muse on.

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Suffice to say, he was wrong. Death is immaterial when all is unity.

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Well, this is just delightful. Good to know that folks have been struggling with the "What am I? The is-ing is." for a long time. Thanks for the perspective.

[@FrederichSchulz]

The fascination in this kind of logos, that thought is being, and as you mentioned that translating of his work inherently establishes it in a different context. Our languages fundamentally effect how we think, not our thinking ability, but it organizs the way we think which can lead to very specific outcomes unique to different cultures. Like the many ways of translating and interpretting Wang Wei's 'Deer Park' poem. Language contextualizes thought, but in that very process can limit how we can think. Or expand it. Cultures with languages with many unique words for similar shades of what we call the same color, are inherently better at recognizing those various shades and hues compared to those of languages without that benefit. And cultures which think in cardinal directionality rather than relative directionality like the Guuguu Yimithirr people of Australia, have a stronger innate sense of direction, we when indoors.

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My dad used to say this about when he was learning Russian and how difficult it was to think in it.

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What you are talking about is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which has been disproven imo

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[@beepboop204]

im a nerd for Heideggers Parmenides

[@NorthenTasawwuf]

Thank you! I love your introduction on Parmenides! Witty, about being an early adopter - then again, Leibnitz, on the other hand, always referred to Parmenides' question as the first one must ask, why there is something, rather than nothing. More importantly, I should add that this unexpected reverie on Parmenides inspired me to some additional puzzle pieces I think are vital in understanding Platonism and a hypothesis of mine about Platonism correctly understood as implying a kind of super-empiricism of sorts.

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❤ seeing that Thorndike set everytime I watch this chanel... man. the text is open source thanfully

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I'd hate to have to read it on screens, though

[@aninvisibleneophyte]

@@TheEsotericaChannel it's such a great read, especially the works dedicated to the enlightenment and sciences. a general overview but also going into all these places that I benefit from studying the history of religion and magical thought.

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This summation was a Masterwork. Insert heartfelt applause.

[@ramyafennell4615]

Fantastic Justin...absolutely appreciate your analysis...really the best....and for the contextualization. Parmenides was my hero from the first time I heard of his teaching. So wonderfully pure. And as Vedantin it was like finding a compatriot in practice of awareness.

[@dbarker7794]

Thanks for the reading recommendations. I'm not smart enough to understand this stuff but it's good to think about it.

[@santtu07]

Long time viewer first time commenter.😅 I just finished reading Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, and a lot of the concepts expressed in this video are explored by the characters in that novel (who are otherwise solving a murder in a monetary in the 1300s). Specifically the idea that names and symbols shape our perception of reality, even though the origin of those symbols is arbitrary. There’s also an excellent adaptation starring Sean Connery (which is very difficult to stream legally in 2023, ironic given the story’s themes of lost media…)

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This is one I need to revisit. I'm reminded of how I barely got that philosophy minor, and probably shouldn't have. Education, like any training, requires you to work up to some things. I've skipped Metaphysics Day too often lately. I'm gonna go do some reps of Tao of Pooh.

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Great video, always an interesting metaphysician. I'm wondering if you've read Oscar Hinze's essay on Parmenides in his Tantra Vidya, in which he understands the third part of the doctrinal poem as corresponding to a lower truth analogous to the yogic concept rather than as mere falsehood. I find it to be incredibly insightful and am persuaded that Hinze is best able to account for the idiosyncrasies of the structure and themes of the doctrinal poem best through his interpretation.

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Wonderful episode! Perhaps it's time for Heraclitus? 👀

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hngggg though as a Heidegger guy i think both Herry and Parry both accept the unity of opposites. i read process metaphysics into it, to be frank

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great video. would love to hear your thoughts on heraclitus too.

[@thedisintegrador]

I love how Parmenides is always overlooked, being something of an underdog, but he’s the first, the most profound mystic of the west, who alone is sufficient. And yet, nobody seems to care! Even I forget about him, because his message is just so clear and simple! Being is, non-being is not!

[@henlojseam]

By any chance would you be willing to review the Advaita Vedanta tradition, as it seems like a philosophical exposition of what might have been missing from the missing fragments from a different tradition entirely. The notion of Truth and Opinion in the fragments is parallel to the ideas of Brahman and Maya.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Probably not

[@henlojseam]

@@TheEsotericaChannel thanks for responding!

[@nemofigarolo8670]

I might be a tad late to the conversation, but it is intriguing to me how similar a lot of these points are to Therevaya Buddhist scriptures or Suttra. Except non being is something we should seek to obtain despite being impossible in some sense because of clinging. I know this channel is mostly about western ideals but the spill into other regions makes me think

[@Bildgesmythe]

A lot to think of. Wow. Thanks.

[@auggiemarsh8682]

Wow! Brilliant exposition. Reminds me of Peter Kingsley's "In the Dark Places of Wisdom." "Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet who is known as the father of logical thought, has been a decisive influence in shaping the whole course of Western philosophy and is a crucial figure in determining how we understand the ancient world. But there are some disturbing details in his own poetry, together with occasional remarks made by other ancient writers, that have always cast a long shadow of doubt over the standard view of him as a purely rational thinker. Then, in the 1950s, a series of inscriptions was unearthed at Parmenides' hometown in southern Italy which has thrown a totally new light on the nature and purpose of his philosophy. This book brings the key evidence together and presents a new picture of him as priest, initiate and healer."