प्रकृति के विषय में

परिचय

A poem in Greek hexameters, the metre of epic, of which about 160 lines survive, mostly through quotations in the sixth-century commentator Simplicius. It has three parts: a proem in which a young man travels by chariot to a goddess, the “Way of Truth” and the “Way of Opinion”, an account of the visible cosmos of which only fragments remain. The Way of Truth argues that what is not can neither be thought nor said, and deduces that being is ungenerated, indivisible and unchanging. The argument is often called the beginning of ontology, the theory of being, and every later Greek theory of change had to respond to it.

संबंध

जिनकी आलोचना की

• अंशलगभग 500 ईसा पूर्व · हेरक्लिटस विवादित

जिसमें आगे बढ़ाया गया

• तिमाइयोसलगभग 360 ईसा पूर्व · प्लेटो

जिसमें उत्तर दिया गया

• पारमेनीडेस (संवाद)लगभग 370 ईसा पूर्व · प्लेटो

जिसमें आलोचना की गई

• अ-सत् के विषय मेंलगभग 440 ईसा पूर्व · गोर्गियास
• फिज़िक्स (अरस्तू)लगभग 350 ईसा पूर्व · अरस्तू