[Case] Whether or not Parmenides could be considered a Taoist I can not say. Nor can I comment on the nature of the dialectic but I believe I can say with some assurance the Lao Tsu was not a Parmenidian. Lao Tsu could however be classified as a Heraclitian. A couple of quotes from Heraclitus should illustrate the point:
"By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonizes with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre." I could easily be mistaken but wasn't Parmenides' claim that the world is still and unchanging and that change is an illusion. Wan't his student Zeno's paradox supposed to prove that movement and change are impossible? moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
