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Hestia

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18. Parmenides - laid foundation for the Corpus Hermeticum
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 11:09 AM
Jun 2020

There is only one Being/Truth and we act upon what we perceive to be true independent of the actual Truth.

Advocated the concept of All is One.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/#OveParPoe

Great book about Parmenides - In the Dark Places of Wisdom, which also discusses the Underground Healing Caves of Apollo

Who is your favoutive Philosopher ? [View all] TristanIsolde Jun 2020 OP
Socrates & Locke onetexan Jun 2020 #1
I'll go with Didactylos. GoneOffShore Jun 2020 #2
Lao Tzu Archetypist Jun 2020 #3
+1 My choices also. c-rational Jun 2020 #19
Nice to hear! Archetypist Jun 2020 #20
Empedocles - 'Love & Strife' empedocles Jun 2020 #4
Lord Bishop George Barkley sab390 Jun 2020 #5
Schopenhauer BeyondGeography Jun 2020 #6
Sartre ret5hd Jun 2020 #7
Mine is Epictetus. Not sure of the spelling. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2020 #8
Felix Adler no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #9
Not in chronological order ... wendyb-NC Jun 2020 #10
Hegel gets a bad rap soothsayer Jun 2020 #11
Hegel is papa bear TristanIsolde Jun 2020 #12
Hegel has a neat footnote sab390 Jun 2020 #14
That's cool soothsayer Jun 2020 #16
Yogi Berra Walleye Jun 2020 #13
It is a tie for me between Chainfire Jun 2020 #15
Zippy the Pinhead quaint Jun 2020 #17
Parmenides - laid foundation for the Corpus Hermeticum Hestia Jun 2020 #18
I have 3. kairos12 Oct 2020 #21
Camus kairos12 Nov 2020 #22
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