before Descartes' radical reduction, Parmenides:
". . . the same thing is there for thinking and for being."
Parmenides' fragment 3 is mere opinion, but what beautifully simple optimism is expressed . . . that we are in and of this world. Interestingly, a logic-based expansion of the cogito (I think something, therefore I and something other than I exist) brings Cartesian doubt and Parmenidean certainty into a kind of alignment which reflects the similarities implicit in their equally reasoned discourses.
(more later . . . )
Parmenides' fragment 3 is mere opinion, but what beautifully simple optimism is expressed . . . that we are in and of this world. Interestingly, a logic-based expansion of the cogito (I think something, therefore I and something other than I exist) brings Cartesian doubt and Parmenidean certainty into a kind of alignment which reflects the similarities implicit in their equally reasoned discourses.
(more later . . . )
posted by haro d' aires at 6:22 p.m.
3 Comments:
A few thoughts: parmenides is separated from descartes by several thousand years of philosophical speculation and methodological development. Can there really be a legitamate connection between them. Does their use/conception of logic (reasoned discourse) share any commonality that makes their comparison useful. Wasn't Parmenides more of a mystic thinker compared to the strict methodology behind Descartes' rational program? I don't see much room for commonality here. Persuade me.
descartes tried and failed to prove that we are necessarily connected to this world. his sceptical method however proved only that we exist. how can you speak of expanding the cogito ergo sum to make descartes agree with the ancients? are you claiming that this expansion is somehow already in the cogito? descartes obviously didn't think so.
Are you an architect?
Do you write/think about architecture?
What is your Educational background?
I like this blog, but is it all going to be philosophy crap?
Lets here some real world thoughts about buildings, projects, cities - the living culture.
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