“both deaf and blind, stupefied, without discernment"
🤣🤣
I wonder how he really felt? Normally so vague he came right out with it there! HAHA!
Pythagoras must have been completely insufferable. I guess they never met right? I know Parmenides was in Italy. Great stuff man. I wish I understood it. I will give it another shot at some point.
"What the work of Parmenides and Zeno leads to is an understanding that there is a difference between matter and geometry, and that in the latter we are working with idealisations, with abstractions. Geometrical objects, at least the ones in our heads, are not material, but, rather, ideal."
This is common sense to us today. "How could anyone not see the two worlds are completely different?" We take so intellectual progress for granted. The gulf that separates us from our ancestors is often much bigger than we can jump. If we went back in time, even if we could speak the language and perfectly mimic the dress and manners, we would still not be able to fit in, and likely would be burned, imprisoned, or exiled!
Yes, this is absolutely the case. When reading older texts, we must be careful to not assume what we today "know" or "understand" in order to try to understand those texts.
“both deaf and blind, stupefied, without discernment"
🤣🤣
I wonder how he really felt? Normally so vague he came right out with it there! HAHA!
Pythagoras must have been completely insufferable. I guess they never met right? I know Parmenides was in Italy. Great stuff man. I wish I understood it. I will give it another shot at some point.
"What the work of Parmenides and Zeno leads to is an understanding that there is a difference between matter and geometry, and that in the latter we are working with idealisations, with abstractions. Geometrical objects, at least the ones in our heads, are not material, but, rather, ideal."
This is common sense to us today. "How could anyone not see the two worlds are completely different?" We take so intellectual progress for granted. The gulf that separates us from our ancestors is often much bigger than we can jump. If we went back in time, even if we could speak the language and perfectly mimic the dress and manners, we would still not be able to fit in, and likely would be burned, imprisoned, or exiled!
Yes, this is absolutely the case. When reading older texts, we must be careful to not assume what we today "know" or "understand" in order to try to understand those texts.