Case said:
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?
dmb says:
If Kingsley and Gallagher are right, the long-established interpretation of
Parmenides is way wrong. I think he's construed as a cosmologist, one of the
first to assert a rational account of things but both of these guys are
saying something similar to Pirsig; mysticism was interpreted OUT of the
equation at about this point in Western history. The case of Parmenides just
being another piece of evidence for that. Pirsig may have been steered away
by a valuable ally by this long-established interpretation and so he looks
to the Sophists instead. I'm convinced that the Pythagorians, Orphism, and
the mystery cults are all part of that same general outlook.
I was looking into the Hegelian dialectic a couple of weeks ago. Somebody
pointed out that the basic idea of reality being composed of opposites has
appeared in most every culture on earth and used Taoism as a prime example.
Well, that notion is expressed in the yin/yang symbol anyway. But I suppose
that has to do with the dualistic nature of thought itself.
"Even the finest teaching is not the Tao itself. Even the finest name is
insufficient to define it. Without words, the Tao can be experienced, and
without a name it can be known." Lao Tsu's opening line.
dmb
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