Question

4. With Parmenides Western Philosophy takes a turn for the logical that is continued with Zeno. At the foundation of this view is the position that Being is motionless and changeless, explain the logic behind this and how Democritus was able to overcome the Parmenidean position.

Answer 1

According to Permenidean, "only Being exists. " This being numbers as only one. Humans perceive his elements that is distributed all across this cosmos. all the things that we daily seek are these elements of the Being and the Being itself can never be found physically.

Parmenides had argued that_" it is impossible for there to be change without something coming from nothing." Also, since the idea that something could come from nothing was generally agreed to be impossible, Parmenides stated that change is merely illusory.

In response, Leucippus and Democritus, along with other Presocratic pluralists such as Empedocles and Anaxagoras, developed systems that made change possible. This change was acquired without that something that Parmenides suggested. Further explaining, there are multiple unchanging material principles, which persist and merely rearrange themselves to form the changing world of appearances.

This approach finally made an impact and the wall created by Permenidean theories could be overcome by the atomic theory of Democritus.where he explains that the unchanging materials that rearrange themselves are indivisible particles, the atoms.