On 1/28/2014 1:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But it refers to an immortal person, and singular at that.
Yes. Singular. that the main contribution of the Parmenides: the rise of monotheism and
the rise of monism. The idea that there is a unique reality. That is the motor of the
fundamental inquiry. It has given the modern science, alas, without theology abandoned
to politics.
But there was no "rise of monotheism" following Parmenides. It rose following the Jews,
who insisted that only *their* great-man-in-the-sky was really real.
Brent
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