Question

Using the Pre-Socratics as your guide, explain why it is said that the source of philosophy lies in the distinction between being and seeming.

Answer 1

Pre-socratic philosophy is the one which occured before the socrates view occur. It is basically a Greek philosophy which is not influenced by the view of socrates. Pre-socratics are also Greek philosophers. Parmendies of Elea was a pre-socratic, his work excessively influenced Plato. His greates contribution was his reasoned proof of assertions. He wrote a poem on the name " ON NATURE" , which was divided into two parts on the view of reality as " The way of truth and way of appearance". He say in the poem that the reality or everyday perception of physical world is MISTAKEN and says the reality is one which exists permanently. That is real being is timeless, unchanging, immobile, ungenerated and it is whole. Whereas the movement and change which occur in reality are just an APPEARANCE of it. He said thet these motion and change (ie) non-being are illusion. He also add that truth cannot be perceived through senses and arguied that multiplicity is unreal. He says change is impossible and denied the possible existence of void.